Mad Dungeon

Our guest this week is Luke Gygax and we talk Founders & Legends (Mar. 15-20),  Gary Con (March 21st-24th)  and Gaxx Worx: Okkorim, G20 shoes and G20 magazine, Gooey Cube. The Tomb of Gyzaengaxx: Mega-Adventure & Campaign, 50 Years of Adventures - Essays collection.

Follow Luke at: website – IG – FB – Twitter

Follow Gary Con at: website – IG – FB – Twitter – TikTok – YouTube – Twitch

ANNOUNCEMENTS

DUNGEON CATS: Tiger Wizard’s rules-fluffy mini-RPG Dungeon Cats is live on Kickstarter for Zine Quest, and fully funded!

THE MEGA DUNGEON MEN EP: Our latest song “More Than Meets the Eye” is out now on all streaming platforms.

GAME FACE CON: Epic Levels will be attending the inaugural Game Face Con in Baltimore on March 9th & 10th!

GARY CON: Epic Levels will be attending Gary Con March 21st-24th for Dungeons & Dragons 50th anniversary celebration.

FLUKE Mini-Comics & Zine Festival: March 30th in Athens, Georgia at the 40 Watt Club.

NEW POSTER MAP: at Exalted Funeral based on our Mad Dungeon season one, episode 20, Song of the Shriekfrapp, with the legendary Erol Otus—who not only made the adventure with us, but also illustrated the 11x17 front-side poster image!

JOIN OUR MAILING LIST by clicking the newsletter button at epiclevelsrapgods.com

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You can support us via Patreon for early episode releases, bonus map content, extra art, access to our discord server, and lots of other exclusive goodies.

Get nerd merch and stay up to date with socials: HERE

Mad Dungeon is hosted by Andrew Bellury, Steve Albertson, Robin Bellury and produced by Zach Cowan.

Theme song by Epic Levels and beat by Jay Domingo. Additional Music by Space Brother

© 2024 Epic Levels. All characters in our adventures–even those based on real people–are entirely fictional.

Welcome to episode one of Rise of the Vat Spawn! In this episode, our protagonists are birthed from colorful vats before fighting some undead skeletal animals. Dragon Warrior gets stabbed in the guts. Warlock Roc gets sprayed by goo. Bat Alchemist manipulates that same liquid goo to freeze the baddies in places. Tiger Wizard tames a skeletal tiger. 

They’re introduced to Anoop, the Marshal of Mummies, and their creator, an undead dragon named Dr. Drecolitch, explains the necropolis they’re in, the city above (Def Jamisus),its political structure, the great dragon wars, and the dragon orbs that he desires.

They fly through the necropolis on Dr. Dracolitch's back to a walled enclave filled with the mutilated exiles of Def Jamisus, learning about how crime is dealt with in Def Jamisus. They return to Dr. Dracolitch’s to heal their wounds, and are introduced to Anoop’s grow room.

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ANNOUNCEMENTS

DUNGEON CATS: Tiger Wizard’s rules-fluffy mini-RPG Dungeon Cats is live on Kickstarter for Zine Quest, and fully funded! 

THE MEGA DUNGEON MEN EP: Our latest song “More Than Meets the Eye” is out now on all streaming platforms. 

GAME FACE CON: Epic Levels will be attending the inaugural Game Face Con in Baltimore on March 9th & 10th! 

GARY CON: Epic Levels will be attending Gary Con March 21st-24th for Dungeons & Dragons 50th anniversary celebration. 

FLUKE Mini-Comics & Zine Festival: Epic Levels will be attending this small press festival along with our pals at Mystic Punks RPG. It will be on March 30th in Athens, Georgia at the 40 Watt Club.

NEW POSTER MAP: We have a new poster adventure map now available for purchase at Exalted Funeral based on our Mad Dungeon season one, episode 20, Song of the Shriekfrapp, with the legendary Erol Otus—who not only made the adventure with us, but also illustrated the 11×17 front-side poster image! 

JOIN OUR MAILING LIST by clicking the newsletter button at epiclevelsrapgods.com

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Thanks for listening to Season Three of the Epic Levels Mad Dungeon podcast, where D&D hip hop group Epic Levels alternate between “Rise of the Vat Spawn,” an actual play using Mystic Punks RPG, and Side Quests where we interview other game creators.

You can support us via Patreon for early episode releases, bonus map content, extra art, access to our discord server, and lots of other exclusive goodies.

Get nerd merch and stay up to date with socials: HERE

Mad Dungeon is hosted by Andrew Bellury, Steve Albertson, Robin Bellury and produced by Zach Cowan.

Theme song by Epic Levels and beat by Jay Domingo.
Additional Music by Space Brother

© 2024 Epic Levels. All characters in our adven

This week we chat with Justin Sirois of Severed Books & Toys to discuss the first Game Face Con in Baltimore on March 9th & 10th at Peabody Brewery. 

Sign up to be notified of his BackerKit to make Mork Borg Action figures that launches April 2nd. This is a collab with Johan Nohr & Pelle Nilsson. The 7-inch fully articulated figure of the skeleton from the cover of the MÖRK BORG. It will also include a zine written by Pelle and art by Johan, Dread Risen Zine.

Listen to our Mad Dungeon episode with Justin where we made MD 205 Flail Milk.

Justin is working on a Spine of Night RPG and more Mothership RPG stuff.

Follow Severed Books at: Website – IG – FB – Twitter

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ANNOUNCEMENTS

DUNGEON CATS:  live on Kickstarter for Zine Quest, and fully funded! A game about cats going into dungeons, slaying vile creatures and getting away with the loot! Back on Kickstarter!

THE MEGA DUNGEON MEN EP: Our latest song “More Than Meets the Eye” is out now on all streaming platforms. 

GAME FACE CON: Epic Levels will be attending the inaugural Game Face Con in Baltimore on March 9th & 10th! 

GARY CON: Epic Levels will be attending Gary Con March 21st-24th for Dungeons & Dragons 50th anniversary celebration. 

FLUKE Mini-Comics & Zine Festival: Epic Levels will be attending this small press festival along with our pals at Mystic Punks RPG. It will be on March 30th in Athens, Georgia at the 40 Watt Club.

NEW POSTER MAP:  purchase at Exalted Funeral made with and illustrated by legendary artist Erol Otus!

JOIN OUR MAILING LIST by clicking the newsletter button at epiclevelsrapgods.com

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Thanks for listening to Season Three of the Epic Levels Mad Dungeon podcast.

You can support us via Patreon

Get nerd merch and stay up to date with socials: HERE

Mad Dungeon is hosted by Andrew Bellury, Steve Albertson, Robin Bellury and produced by Zach Cowan.

Theme song by Epic Levels and beat by Jay Domingo.

© 2024 Epic Levels. All characters in our adventures–even those based on real people–are entirely fictional.

Welcome to session zero of our season 3 actual play Rise of the Vat Spawn where fantasy and hip hop culture are smashed together to create an epic urban adventure.

Here we'll discuss what to expect for the season, including format, tone, safety tools, and we'll utilize Mad Dungeon words as we have in our previous seasons.

We'll create and introduce the characters (Tiger Wizard, Dragon Warrior, Warlock Roc and Bat Alchemist) using the Mystic Punks RPG system.

Steve gave the team his inspirational Appendix N: Nimona, Arcane, Avatar: The Last Airbender, The Legend of Korra, She-Ra and The Princesses of Power, Masters of the Universe, Final Fantasy 7, Studio Ghibli, Fist of the North Star, Ill Bill “War is My Destiny” Video, Wild Style, Style Wars (1983 documentary), Altered Carbon, and Hype Williams videos.

Hope you all enjoy this improvised story that we'll create together.

ANNOUNCEMENTS

DUNGEON CATS: Tiger Wizard’s rules-fluffy mini-RPG Dungeon Cats , a game about cats going into dungeons, slaying vile creatures and getting away with the loot, is live on Kickstarter! Back now!

GAME FACE CON: Epic Levels will be attending the inaugural Game Face Con in Baltimore on March 9th & 10th! 

GARY CON: Epic Levels will be attending Gary Con March 21st-24th for Dungeons & Dragons 50th anniversary celebration. 

FLUKE Mini-Comics & Zine Festival: Epic Levels will be attending this small press festival along with our pals at Mystic Punks RPG. It will be on March 30th in Athens, Georgia at the 40 Watt Club.

NEW POSTER MAP: We have a new poster adventure map now available for purchase at Exalted Funeral based on our Mad Dungeon season one, episode 20, Song of the Shriekfrapp, with the legendary Erol Otus—who not only made the adventure with us, but also illustrated the 11×17 front-side poster image! 

JOIN OUR MAILING LIST by clicking the newsletter button at epiclevelsrapgods.com

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Thanks for listening to Season Three of the Epic Levels Mad Dungeon podcast, where D&D hip hop group Epic Levels alternate between “Rise of the Vat Spawn,” an actual play using Mystic Punks RPG, and Side Quests where we interview other game creators.

You can support us via Patreon for early episode releases, bonus map content, extra art, access to our discord server, and lots of other exclusive goodies.

Get nerd merch and stay up to date with socials: HERE

Mad Dungeon is hosted by Andrew Bellury, Steve Albertson, Robin Bellury and produced by Zach Cowan.

Theme song by Epic Levels and beat by Jay Domingo.

© 2024 Epic Levels. All characters in our adventures–even those based on real people–are entirely fictional.

Welcome to our first episode of Season Three! This week we talk with Anthony Meloro and Jay Domingo about their upcoming kickstarter for the Mystic Punks TTRPG, out exclusively through Exalted Funeral. 

Pre-save the Mystic Punks Kickstarter here: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/exaltedfuneral/mystic-punks-table-top-roleplaying-game?ref=clipboard-prelaunch

We discuss our season three actual play in which mash fantasy and hip hop as we explore the city-state of Def Jamisus using the Mystic Punks as our game system.

We discuss what separates Mystic Punks from other games like soulbound weapons and the spell system. Overall, it’s a game about going against the normies and being an outsider.

Check out our previous episodes with Anthony and Jay:

MD 001 #CancelSatan w/ Anthony Meloro

MD 002 Tower of Slime with Jay Domingo

Get other Mystic Punks goodies to gear up for the release right now at Exalter Funeral.

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ANNOUNCEMENTS

DUNGEON CATS: Tiger Wizard’s rules-fluffy mini-RPG Dungeon Cats launches today on Kickstarter for Zine Quest! A game about cats going into dungeons, slaying vile creatures and getting away with the loot!

GAME FACE CON: Epic Levels will be attending the inaugural Game Face Con in Baltimore on March 9th & 10th!

GARY CON: Epic Levels will be podcasting live at Gary Con March 21st-24th for Dungeons & Dragons 50th anniversary celebration.

FLUKE Mini-Comics & Zine Festival: Epic Levels will be attending this small press festival along with our pals at Mystic Punks RPG. It will be on March 30th in Athens, Georgia at the 40 Watt Club.

NEW POSTER MAP: for purchase at Exalted Funeral with the legendary Erol Otus—who not only made the adventure with us, but also illustrated the 11x17 front-side poster image!

JOIN OUR MAILING LIST by clicking the newsletter button at epiclevelsrapgods.com

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Season Three of the Epic Levels Mad Dungeon podcast, where we alternate between “Rise of the Vat Spawn,” an actual play using Mystic Punks RPG, and Side Quests where we interview other game creators.

You can support us via Patreon for early episode releases, bonus map content, extra art, access to our discord server, and lots of other exclusive goodies.

Get nerd merch and stay up to date with socials: HERE

Mad Dungeon is hosted by Andrew Bellury, Steve Albertson, Robin Bellury and produced by Zach Cowan.

Theme song by Epic Levels and beat by Jay Domingo.

© 2024 Epic Levels. All characters in our adventures–even those based on real people–are entirely fictional.

For part two of our grand season 2 mega dungeon finale, this week we talk with:

Marc Miller, legendary creator behind Game Designers' Workshop (GDW), Traveller and owner of Far Future Enterprises.

Shanna Germain, award-winning author, editor, game designer and co-founder of Monte Cook Games.  We talk The Magnus Archives and her next novel. Follow Shanna: Website - Patreon - Instagram - Twitter - Facebook

Chris Lindsay, product Marketing Manager at Wizards of the Coast, head Dungeon Master for the D&D Adventurers League, D&D in a Castle and The Deck of Many Things (2023). Follow Chris: Instagram

Sean K. Reynolds, designer/developer at Monte Cook Games. It's Only Magic. Follow Sean: Instagram - Twitter - Patreon

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The Mad Dungeon season 2 #dungeon23 Mega Dungeon is complete! 

Wizard Tower of Love w/ Monte Cook.
The Gas Top w/ Mike Mason.
Grand Master Lucille’s Skip-Kick w/ Skip Williams.
Flying Crimson Chaos Beaver w/ Jeff Richard.
Col. Cybercop w/ Joseph Goodman.
Laser Sword Assembly w/ Marc Miller.
Skedaddle: The Mice Prison Rodeo w/ Shanna Germain.
Anfernee, Dealer of Anthropomorphic Antiquities w/ Chris Lindsay.
Yorin, Broomstick Custodian w/ Sean K. Reynolds.

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ANNOUNCEMENTS

Dungeon Cats pre-launch page is now live on the Epic Level's Kickstarter! 

JOIN OUR MAILING LIST by clicking the newsletter button on epiclevelsrapgods.com

New Erol Otus poster adventure map at Exalted Funeral.

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Epic Levels Mad Dungeon podcast, where Epic Levels and a guest create a playable dungeon room using improv, comedy, and lifetimes wasted on roleplaying games.

Patreon & website HERE

Mad Dungeon is hosted by Andrew Bellury, Steve Albertson, and produced by Zach Cowan.

Theme song by Epic Levels. Beat by Inner Resting.

© 2024 Epic Levels. All characters in this adventure–even those based on real people–are entirely fictional.

For part one of our grand season 2 mega dungeon finale, this week we talk with:

Monte Cook of Monte Cook Games talks about D&D 3E, Numenera, Cypher System, Old Gods of Appalachia RPG and his upcoming The Magnus Archives. Follow Monte Cook: Website - Twitter - Facebook 

Mike Mason of Chaosium  talks Call of Cthulhu, Alone Against the Static, Arkham Unveiled, the upcoming/updated Cthulhu By Gaslight and his podcast Eldritch Stories. Follow Chaosium: Website - Instagram - Twitter - YouTube - Facebook 

Skip Williams "The Sage" talks D&D 3E,  Dragon Magazine, Gary Con & Founders and Legends  for D&D's 50th anniversary. Find Skip on Facebook and at Gary Con: Co-Event Manager & Honored Guest

Jeff Richard, creative director of Chaosium talks Call of Cthulhu, Pendragon, and upcoming RuneQuest projects: Cults of RuneQuest: The Lunar Way, the Solar cult book and more. Follow Jeff on Facebook.

Joseph Goodman of Goodman Games talks Dungeon Crawl Classic, Grimtooth, Adventures on the Purple Planet and Appendix N. Follow Goodman Games: Website - Instagram - Twitter - YouTube - Facebook

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The season finale super room will be revealed next week along with the final mega-dungeon that we spent a year creating with all our friends!

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Dungeon Cats  pre-launch page is now live on the Epic Level's Kickstarter!

JOIN OUR MAILING LIST by clicking the newsletter button on epiclevelsrapgods.com

New poster adventure maps are now available for purchase at Exalted Funeral.

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You can support us via Patreon.

Mad Dungeon is hosted by Andrew Bellury, Steve Albertson, and produced by Zach Cowan.

Theme song by Epic Levels and beat by Inner Resting.

© 2023 Epic Levels. All characters in this adventure–even those based on real people–are entirely fictional.

This week’s guest is Chris Prynoski, owner of Titmouse, and we talk about The Legend of Vox Machina, the upcoming Mighty Nein, the power he gained as steward of The Sandal of Gygax, and his game group the Murder Hobos.

Follow Titmouse: Website - Instagram - Twitter - YouTube - Facebook - Titmouse merch

MD 239 Hangin’ Sacks 5th Ave w/ Chris Prynoski

This store has a portcullis separating you from the nugglets, zombie-like living testies that’ll chomp your nards. Hangin’ Brains, the seamstress necromancer, demands that you choose necropants from the rack before she releases the nugglets on you. There’s six styles of necropants made from human skin. They each have distended testicles and magically adhere when you put them on, becoming your skin.

1- Purple-Veined Jeans: They’ll form a coin barrier between your nutsack and the necropants’ nutsack giving you immunity to the bite of the nugglet.

2 - Harem: Made of loose and flabby skin, anyl movement blows the pants open to expose your scrotal region for easy chomping.

3 - Bidol the Sentient Scrotal Sleeve: He’ll editorialize what it thinks about your balls before belting out a “rebel yell” to call over the nugglets.

4 - Necro Booty Shorts: You’re cursed with Titmouse’s irresistible animation.

5 - Kilt of Many Circles: A breezy skirt covered in holes that expose your ballzak.

6 - The Unreliable Codpiece: This platemail codpiece has a lock and key, but it intentionally opens up at the most inopportune times.

Art: Tiger Wizard  Words: Steve Albertson
Story by: Andrew Bellury, Steve Albertson, Chris Prynoski

ANNOUNCEMENTS

Dungeon Cats  pre-launch page is now live on the Epic Level's Kickstarter! 

JOIN OUR MAILING LIST by clicking the newsletter button on epiclevelsrapgods.com

Two new poster adventure maps are now available for purchase at Exalted Funeral.

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Thanks for listening to Season Two of the Epic Levels Mad Dungeon podcast, where D&D hip hop group Epic Levels and a guest create a system-neutral, playable dungeon room using improv, comedy, and lifetimes wasted on roleplaying games.

You can support us via Patreon for early episode releases, bonus map content, extra art, access to our discord server, and lots of other exclusive goodies.

Get nerd merch and stay up to date with socials: HERE

Mad Dungeon is hosted by Andrew Bellury, Steve Albertson, and produced by Zach Cowan.

Theme song by Epic Levels and beat by Inner Resting.

© 2023 Epic Levels. All characters in this adventure–even those based on real people–are entirely fictional.

This week we talk about all the fun we had at PAX Unplugged 2023.

Thursday: Andrew set up the Exalted Funeral booth while Steve said hi to Tony Vacinda (Plus One Exp), Pelle Nilsson and Johan Nohr (MÖRK BORG), Brian Colin (Vast Grimm), Jarrett Crader (Space Penguin Ink) and Brian Shutter (Neon Lords of the Toxic Wastelands). Then they both went to a party hosted by 9th Level Games.

Friday: Andrew worked the Exalted Funeral booth while Steve ran Mad Dungeon rooms using OSE: Old School Essentials in the Alexandria RPG Library room. Steve walked the hall and got some time with Joey Royale, the folks at Quest Chest, Craig Cambell (Nerdburger) and Brigette Winter (Psychic Trash Detectives). Steve was able to get in a game of The Walking Dead (Free League) before meeting Andrew at the BackerKit party where we threw axes with Joseph Goodman (Goodman Games), Banana Chan, Jason Furie (Realm Runners), Justin Sorios (Severed Books) & Adam Good and Jamie Perez (Stations - An Infinity of Ships).

Saturday: Steve ran another group through Epic Level Mad Dungeon rooms before meeting Andrew at the Exalted Funeral booth just in time for a signing with artists David Hoskins and Justine Jones. Steve played in Levi Combs (Planet X Games) D&D 1E game exploring his Escape from Skullcano Island adventure. That night they all convened at a party hosted by Kickstarter before a wild night of Karaoke with the entire Exalted Funeral crew, the Mork Borg fellas, Zac Goins (WoGD), Jarrett Crater (Space Penguin Ink), Cassi Mothwin (Clean Spirit, The Sticker Game) who won The Tabletop Award for Rising Star: Designer, and the award’s hosts Wheels & Maddie from Dicebreaker.

Sunday: After a Philly cheesesteak breakfast, Steve and Andrew attended the Tabletop Music: Professional Nerd Musicians Q&A panel with Arcane Anthems, Nur-D, Denkles, Ginny Di, Omega Jones, Emaline Stirling, and Will Savino.

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ANNOUNCEMENTS

Dungeon Cats is a rules-light, casual TTRPG by our own Tiger Wizard. The pre-launch page is now live on the Epic Level's Kickstarter! Click the "notify me on launch" button to make sure you don’t miss out!

JOIN OUR MAILING LIST by clicking the newsletter button on epiclevelsrapgods.com

Two new poster adventure maps are now available for purchase at Exalted Funeral.

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Thanks for listening to Season Two of the Epic Levels Mad Dungeon podcast, where D&D hip hop group Epic Levels and a guest create a system-neutral, playable dungeon room using improv, comedy, and lifetimes wasted on roleplaying games.

You can support us via Patreon for early episode releases, bonus map content, extra art, access to our discord server, and lots of other exclusive goodies.

Get nerd merch and stay up to date with socials: HERE

Mad Dungeon is hosted by Andrew Bellury, Steve Albertson, and produced by Zach Cowan.

Theme song by Epic Levels and beat by Mason Grant.

© 2023 Epic Levels. All characters in this adventure–even those based on real people–are entirely fictional.

This week’s guest is Amy Vorpahl and we talk about  Fizban’s Treasury of Dragons,  Candlekeep Mysteries,  Dimension 20 ,  Breaking News: No Laugh Newsroom, her latest album Behold Her Dreams, Geek & Sundry to Critical Role and her D&D Beyond show “Jingleshearth.”

Follow Amy: Website/Newsletter - Instagram - Twitter - YouTube - TikTok - Bandcam

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Ad-lib: “I know that (a PC) kissed (a silly name) underneath the (a silly place) and you had your (a silly object) in your left hand.”

Chuckle Cottage: This cottagecore bachelor pad is filled with delightful desserts and a cozily burning fireplace with a phantom portrait that’ll consume you with psychic damage if you look at it. A magically animated red-plaid Duvet will choose a champion who gets one “do-over” in the game.

Sarguar Nardgar MacDuffin: This red-plaid clad Scottish wizard is a santa. He offers you Magic Cookies that’ll make you feel: 1-cozy, 2-whimsical or 3-awful, and gives you the rules of the game. He has a massive bag of swords to give away to the winners.

The game: In real life (IRL) don’t laugh/smile or you lose. Players make eye contact with one other person. DM may say the name Sarguar Nardgar MacDuffin and read the above ad-lib to attempt to evoke laughter. Everyone else must remain silent.

Art: Tiger Wizard  Words: Steve Albertson
Story by: Andrew Bellury, Steve Albertson, Amy Vorpahl

ANNOUNCEMENTS

Dungeon Cats  pre-launch page is now live on the Epic Level's Kickstarter!

We’ll be be at PAX Unplugged in Philadelphia from Dec. 1st-3rd. 

JOIN OUR MAILING LIST by clicking the newsletter button on epiclevelsrapgods.com

Two new poster adventure maps are now available for purchase at Exalted Funeral.

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You can support us via Patreon.

Get nerd merch and stay up to date with socials: HERE

Mad Dungeon is hosted by Andrew Bellury, Steve Albertson, and produced by Zach Cowan.

Theme song by Epic Levels and beat by Inner Resting.

© 2023 Epic Levels. All characters in this adventure–even those based on real people–are entirely fictional.

This week’s guest is Justin Nauman, president of Tabletop Gaymers. We talk about the GAYMER and ALLY Badge Ribbons that they pass out at conventions, Gayme Night for LGBTQ+ Community Centers and The Gaming Safe Space Initiative - in association with GAMA.

Follow Tabletop Gaymers: Website - Instagram - Facebook - Twitch - Discord

MD 237 Sashays & Shields w/ Justin Nauman

Two thin runways are above a 30-foot drop to a magnetic floor. You’re welcomed by the floating Bearbara Grizzelich, a drag performer dressed as a leather-daddy bear. They explain the rules and hand out a ribbon to the victor. Magic ribbons: “Sashay Queen,” 1/day fly 30 feet. “Bear Pride Flag,” 1/day briefly doubles your strength. “Drag-on King,” 1/day briefly boosts your AC.

Sashays & Shields: This ball competition consists of walking like a supermodel down the catwalk in full armor with a shield. Dex checks. Don’t fall. Grizzelich will judge you on dance, beauty and realness. After each walk the loser has one of their three chunks of runway drop away until one falls to their doom.

Dance Houses: Each wall has a viewing booth occupied by the ghosts of previous competitors who now occupy one of the four dance houses: Queen, King, Genderfuck or Camp. Choose a house, and an opposing house’s champion ghost will haunt their respective armor and choose their shield with the longest stream of ribbons to compete against you.

Art: Tiger Wizard  Words: Steve Albertson
Story by: Andrew Bellury, Steve Albertson, Justin Nauman

DJ horn attribution this ep to: neilyhype

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Dungeon Cats pre-launch page is now live on our Kickstarter!

Black Friday at our sponsor Exalted Funeral.  Snag yourself a copy of Tiger Wizard’s postcard adventure, Bottom of the Spiked pit for free! 

We’ll be be at PAX Unplugged in Philadelphia from Dec. 1st-3rd. 

JOIN OUR MAILING LIST by clicking the newsletter button on epiclevelsrapgods.com

Two new poster adventure maps are now available for purchase at Exalted Funeral.

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You can support us via Patreon for early episode releases, bonus map content, extra art, access to our discord server, and lots of other exclusive goodies.

Get nerd merch and stay up to date with socials: HERE

Mad Dungeon is hosted by Andrew Bellury, Steve Albertson, and produced by Zach Cowan.

Theme song by Epic Levels and beat by Inner Resting.

© 2023 Epic Levels. All characters in this adventure–even those based on real people–are entirely fictional.

This week’s guest is game designer, writer, sensitivity reader, and editor Jacqueline Bryk. We talk about her background in diplomacy and how that fits into how she designs games, TTRPG safety tools as a language of communicating with each other, and her surrealist fiction zine The Pinesorrow Collection, Vol. 1, a love letter to atmospheric storytelling.

We discuss her LARP games like Send N00ds and solo games like Just A Little Time, I Have No Railgun And I Must Scream, and Butterfly On The Wheel, and her upcoming A Thousand Yards Of Lace, a hack (with permission) of Thousand Year Old Vampire.

Follow Jacqueline: https://linktr.ee/rufflejax

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This cathedral has a checkerboard floor, a large chandelier made of stainless steel championship belts, and a boxing ring in the center. Inside of the ring is a coffin containing Eva Slaughter “The Red Reign of Pain,” a yoked goth-girl boxer.

The Devil himself says that if someone doesn’t step up to marry Eva’s ghost, he’ll drag her soul to hell. An eccentric cast of boxing champions stand in a circle around the ring on glowing rune-inscribed tiles giving eulogies. They then look at you to complete the circle.

Ghost Marriage: If you choose to go through this ritual, you’re bound to Eva’s ghost, who rises, dukes up, from the coffin. A wispy ghost ring wraps around your finger, tethering you to your new ghost wife. Burn effigies of money and other items for her to use in the afterlife or she’ll haunt you.

Art: Tiger Wizard  Words: Steve Albertson
Story by: Andrew Bellury, Steve Albertson, Jacqueline Bryk

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ANNOUNCEMENTS

Dungeon Cats  pre-launch page is now live on the Epic Level's Kickstarter!

We’ll be be at PAX Unplugged in Philadelphia from Dec. 1st-3rd. 

Two new poster adventure maps are now available for purchase at Exalted Funeral.

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Thanks for listening to Season Two of the Epic Levels Mad Dungeon podcast, where D&D hip hop group Epic Levels and a guest create a system-neutral, playable dungeon room using improv, comedy, and lifetimes wasted on roleplaying games.

You can support us via Patreon for early episode releases, bonus map content, extra art, access to our discord server, and lots of other exclusive goodies.

Get nerd merch and stay up to date with socials: HERE

Mad Dungeon is hosted by Andrew Bellury, Steve Albertson, and produced by Zach Cowan.

Theme song by Epic Levels and beat by Inner Resting.

© 2023 Epic Levels. All characters in this adventure–even those based on real people–are entirely fictional.

This week’s guest is Alex Roberts who won the Diana Jones Award for her game Star Crossed. We discuss Star Crossed, safety tools when playing TTRPGs, and her card-based storytelling game For the Queen. We also talk about the supplement Star Crossed: Love Letters which is crowdfunding now!

BACK STAR CROSSED: LOVE LETTERS ON BACKERKIT

Follow Alex: Website - Newsletter - Instagram - X/Twitter - Itch.io

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There’s a love triangle between Sluggoth, an elder space-slug deity with a 30’ aura of peace & love radiating from them, Captain Blaarg, an arrogant yet handsome yellow gelatinous creature, and Percival Blorp, a glowing space-skeleton with expressive eyeballs, eyebrows and buck teeth.

This competition cooking show is for the hand of the fair Sluggoth. This royal wedding, broadcasting to the galaxy, is the event of the season. You’ll have time to mingle with the participants before having to choose a side, becoming sous chefs for your champion in this joust of manners and culinary experience.

This cute room has several tiered, levitating platforms where gelatinous flowers are growing. There’s a stable of talking, sarcastic, three-headed riding birds with wings of daggers (to cut the flowers), used to reach the floating platforms. Whoever makes the best edible arrangements between three courses while using the surprise ingredient wins. Sluggoth will judge and crown the winner. The Slug Bishop, a large symbiotic slug on a human host’s head, presides over the show.

Art: Tiger Wizard  Words: Steve Albertson
Story by: Andrew Bellury, Steve Albertson, Alex Roberts

ANNOUNCEMENTS

Dungeon Cats pre-launch page is now live on the Epic Level's Kickstarter!

We’ll be be at PAX Unplugged in Philadelphia from Dec. 1st-3rd. 

Two new poster adventure maps are now available for purchase at Exalted Funeral.

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Thanks for listening to Season Two of the Epic Levels Mad Dungeon podcast, where D&D hip hop group Epic Levels and a guest create a system-neutral, playable dungeon room using improv, comedy, and lifetimes wasted on roleplaying games.

You can support us via Patreon for early episode releases, bonus map content, extra art, access to our discord server, and lots of other exclusive goodies.

Get nerd merch and stay up to date with socials: HERE

Mad Dungeon is hosted by Andrew Bellury, Steve Albertson, and produced by Zach Cowan.

Theme song by Epic Levels and beat by Inner Resting.

© 2023 Epic Levels. All characters in this adventure–even those based on real people–are entirely fictional.

This week’s guest is Max Moon of Max Moon Games. We talk about his latest project Abyss of Hallucinations (Kickstarting via Exalted Funeral now), Book of Lies, The Demon Lord Expansion for Twelve Years RPG, Fairyland, and Cthulugans.

Support the Abyss of Hallucinations Kickstarter here!
Fully funded and all stretch goals are unlocked!

Follow Max: Website - Instagram

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This immaculate, gold-plated room has 1d100 gold heads scattered around the floor. Gold fairies are stoned and having a good time. They’re making these heads as macabre costumes, with their head through a hole in the top, arms through the ear holes and their legs coming out of the neck hole. They can fly while wearing the heads. They’ll offer you their fairy weed and try to talk you into the hotbox.

The Hotbox: This phone booth sized box has three chambers. The topmost contains molten gold in a magic crucible above the door. Below that is a chamber large enough for a human to stand in. Once the door is closed, the molten gold is poured over their head. A guillotine mechanism severs the head and contains it in the “head chamber.” A trap door grate opens beneath the chamber, dropping the body down a chute into the compactor pit filled with waist-deep, gold-flecked blood. The walls then compact to turn the corpse into a meat cube, then eaten by an amorphous carrion devourer made primarily of eyeball stalks.

Art: Tiger Wizard  Words: Steve Albertson
Story by: Andrew Bellury, Steve Albertson, Max Moon

ANNOUNCEMENTS

Dungeon Cats pre-launch page is now live on the Epic Level's Kickstarter!

We’ll be be at PAX Unplugged in Philadelphia from Dec. 1st-3rd.

Two new poster adventure maps are now available for purchase at Exalted Funeral.

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Thanks for listening to Season Two of the Epic Levels Mad Dungeon podcast, where D&D hip hop group Epic Levels and a guest create a dungeon room.

You can support us via Patreon. Get nerd merch and stay up to date with socials: HERE

Mad Dungeon is hosted by Andrew Bellury, Steve Albertson, and produced by Zach Cowan.

Theme song by Epic Levels and beat by Inner Resting.

© 2023 Epic Levels. All characters in this adventure–even those based on real people–are entirely fictional.

This week we talk about all the fun we had at Cabin in the Woods Con & Gamehole Con 2023.

At Cabin in the Woods Con 2023 we played: 

• Pukeapocalypse - run by Andrew Bellury
• D&D 5E - “That Which Lurks Beneath” - run by Ryan Steffen 
• D666 (Tiny Dungeon meets Maze Rats) “Wizard Robbers” where we rob the wizard manses from DCC’s Dying Earth Box Set - Jeremy Deram
• The Dept. of Kids Who Know There are Monsters Under the Bed - original game playtest - run by Zach Cowan 
• Mystic Punks - “The Thrill Kill Ministry” playtest - run by Steve Albertson
• D&D 5E - “Dragon War: Paralyzing Gas” -run by Aleksandr Revzin

 We’re gearing up for our Season 3 in 2024.

At Gamehole Con 2023 we interviewed lots of our favorite creators for what will be our Season 2 grand finale in December. Steve ran our Mad Dungeon rooms using Old School Essentials, but Steve and Andrew spent most of their time at the booth talking about all things Epic Levels and Exalted Funeral.

Other highlights were spending time with their RPG friends like Levi Combs, Skeeter Green, Thom Wilson, Brian Shutter, Luau Lou (who all played Shadow Dark RPG together), Brian Colin, Alex Kammer, Jeff Richard, and so many more.

Support some of their Kickstarters here:
Brian Colin Creature Curation - The Molt
Alex Kammer Frog God Games - The End of Everything

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ANNOUNCEMENTS

Dungeon Cats is a rules-light, casual TTRPG by our own Tiger Wizard. The pre-launch page is now live on the Epic Level's Kickstarter! Click the "notify me on launch" button to make sure you don’t miss out!

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Monsters! Mazes! Martinis & Minotaurs! The Epic Levels - Armor Classy CDungeon is now available for purchase at Exalted Funeral. This amazing artifact is both a compact disc of the fantasy RPG hip hop album, and a full-color compact dungeon adventure that’s based on the album’s songs and Wisconsin oddity attraction, The House on the Rock. The included system-agnostic mini-adventure features a fully illustrated 10 room dungeon crawl.

Art & layout: Tiger Wizard

Written by: Steve Albertson

Additional artwork by: Ambrose H. Hoilman & Michael Mauldin

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Thanks for listening to Season Two of the Epic Levels Mad Dungeon podcast, where D&D hip hop group Epic Levels and a guest create a system-neutral, playable dungeon room using improv, comedy, and lifetimes wasted on roleplaying games.

You can support us via Patreon for early episode releases, bonus map content, extra art, access to our discord server, and lots of other exclusive goodies.

Get nerd merch and stay up to date with socials: HERE

Mad Dungeon is hosted by Andrew Bellury, Steve Albertson, and produced by Zach Cowan.

Theme song by Epic Levels and beat by Mason Grant.

© 2023 Epic Levels. All characters in this adventure–even those based on real people–are entirely fictional.

This week’s guest is Alex Kammer, director of Gamehole Con. We talk about what to expect at this year’s Gamehole Con, October 19th - 22nd, 2023 in Madison, WI. We also discuss his upcoming D&D campaign book, The End of Everything that he wrote with Alan Patrick (out via Frog God Games).

Sign up for The End of Everything Kickstarter pre-launch HERE.

Follow Alex: Website - XTwitter

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The Fen is a mix of nuclear waste and slimy frog skin. Nuclear barrels float next to hundreds of bowling-ball-sized disembodied Frogore eyes that watch you and blink. Supplicants live in huts on long legs that stick out of the water, connected by a network of docks with a canoe for every hut. You can use canoes to reach the five idols, 10-foot stone images that’ve drifted to the center of the lake. You can summon Frogore by either turning them to face the center of the lake, or arrange them in the shape of Frogore.

Frogore: This froghemoth elder god has hundreds of eyes that fall off of its body, and grow back just as fast. If you give it an offering of booze and nuke, Frogore will bless you with its ooze, giving you a mutation. A loot pile of discarded offerings rests at the bottom of the lake.

Mutation chart: 1- prehensile sticky tongue.  2- Grow five bulging eyes that can see underwater. 3- Leap 4x as high. 4- Caustic slime coats your body. 5- Webbed hands & feet. 6- Amphibious.

Art: Tiger Wizard  Words: Steve Albertson
Story by: Andrew Bellury, Steve Albertson, Alex Kammer

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We speak with Tony Vasinda of PlusOneExp about RPG Zine Club, their new monthly membership subscription service.

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ANNOUNCEMENTS

Check out all the amazing dwarves from our Best Dwarf Drawing Contest.

Dungeon Cats is now live on the Epic Level's Kickstarter.

We’ll be podcasting live at Gamehole Con in Madison on Oct. 19th- 24th.

We’ll be be at PAX Unplugged in Philadelphia from Dec. 1st-3rd.

Two new poster adventure maps are now available for purchase at Exalted Funeral.

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Thanks for listening to Season Two of the Epic Levels Mad Dungeon podcast.

You can support us via Patreon. Get nerd merch and stay up to date with socials: HERE

Mad Dungeon is hosted by Andrew Bellury, Steve Albertson, and produced by Zach Cowan.

Theme song by Epic Levels and beat by Inner Resting.
SFX attributes: lonemonk, 

This week’s guest is Tyler Crumrine of Possible World Games and we talk about his map-labeling game Beak, Feather, & Bone and its Ennie-winning (Best Cartography) expansion Claw Atlas. We talked about his one-shot games like Dating.Sim, what he’s learned from teaching game design at Carnegie Mellon University, and his upcoming RPG card project BAD BAD BAD. 

Follow Tyler: Website - Discord - XTwitter - Instagram - Facebook

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MD 231 - Tiny Tarts with Big Hearts

As you enter Tiny Tarts, a romantic restaurant, you’re greeted by a lich maître d' wearing a nametag that says “Tart.” Tart stands at a podium that’s covered in blooming shrink shrooms. They’ll explain the rules of the room, and with your permission, shrink you down with the shrink shrooms’ spore gas. From the podium, you zipline to Shinkland, which looks like a grapefruit hockey puck in the center of the room.

Shrinkland: This crowded, pocket-sized carnival adventure park is quite romantic, but rife with dangers. The zipline lands you in an oversized garden, but be wary of garden mites and living thorny roses. From here you can enjoy the other carnival games: bug wrangling pit, marksman range, flea circus, strawberries big enough to feed 20 people, and a pretzel with jello and pudding in the holes for spicy wrestling. On bad days, rats the size of dragons will attack Shrinkland, devouring everything.

To become unshrunk, you must find someone to be in a consenting, mutually beneficial relationship (that can be aromantic), and leave as a pair holding hands through the Tunnel of Love.

Art: Tiger Wizard  Words: Steve Albertson

Story by: Andrew Bellury, Steve Albertson, Tyler Crumrine

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This week Tiger Wizard teams up with celebrity judges David Hoskins and Erol Otus to discuss their judging criteria and their love of dwarves as they judge the winners of our Best Dwarf Drawing Contest in the break of this episode.

ANNOUNCEMENTS

Dungeon Cats is now live on the Epic Level's Kickstarter!

We’ll be podcasting live at Gamehole Con in Madison on Oct. 19th- 24th. 

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Mad Dungeon podcast where D&D hip hop group Epic Levels and a guest create a system-neutral, playable dungeon room.

You can support us via Patreon for early episode releases, bonus map content, extra art, access to our discord server, and lots of other exclusive goodies.

Follow us HERE

Mad Dungeon is hosted by Andrew Bellury, Steve Albertson, and produced by Zach Cowan.

Theme song by Epic Levels and beat by Inner Resting.

© 2023 Epic Levels. All characters in this adventure–even those based on real people–are entirely fictional.

This week’s guest is Andrew Clayton and we talk about his Foundry Virtual Tabletop and how it started with his own curiosity and playing online with his friends. We discuss Foundry’s place in the TTRPG community, its low barrier to entry for basic functions and how it’s great for technical folks who love to tinker. Andrew also answers several questions from friend of the show Jeremy Deram of People Them With Monsters.

Follow Foundry VTT: Website - XTwitter - Bluesky

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This room is covered in a thick fog. You can’t see more than a foot in front of you. The floor goes uphill and has the pattern of a circuit-board maze of perpendicular lines that the Cyber Sisyphus, a boulder-size orb that glows neon blue, is to be navigated to a concave nest at the top. Each dead end has a floating proximity mine that explodes when the orb gets too close, knocking you back to the starting position. Hiding in the fog is Jack the Hacker, giving instructions on how the room works and mocking your failures.

There are two levers on opposite walls. One moves the orb north/south, and the other east/west. There are two pairs of cyber goggles. One that allows you to see the north/south walls and the other the east/west walls. When the orb moves, it leaves a glowing force field behind it so you can’t backtrack or cross where you’re already gone.

Reward: A combustiboard. This floating hoverboard can jump 20 feet, leaving an explosion that deals blast damage.

Art: Tiger Wizard  Words: Steve Albertson

Story by: Andrew Bellury, Steve Albertson, Andrew Clayton

ANNOUNCEMENTS

All Dwarf drawings are in, submissions have closed.

Dungeon Cats is now live on the Epic Level's Kickstarter!

We’ll be podcasting live at Gamehole Con in Madison on Oct. 19th- 24th. 

We’ll be be at PAX Unplugged in Philadelphia from Dec. 1st-3rd. 

Two new poster adventure maps are now available for purchase at Exalted Funeral.

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Thanks for listening to Season Two of the Epic Levels Mad Dungeon podcast, where D&D hip hop group Epic Levels and a guest create a system-neutral, playable dungeon room using improv, comedy, and lifetimes wasted on roleplaying games.

You can support us via Patreon for early episode releases, bonus map content, extra art, access to our discord server, and lots of other exclusive goodies.

Get nerd merch and stay up to date with socials: HERE

Mad Dungeon is hosted by Andrew Bellury, Steve Albertson, and produced by Zach Cowan.

Theme song by Epic Levels and beat by Inner Resting.

© 2023 Epic Levels. All characters in this adventure–even those based on real people–are entirely fictional.

This week’s guest is Luke Crane and we get into the philosophy behind TTRPG creation. We talk about making games as a teen, creating his games Burning Wheel, Mouse Guard and Torchbearer. We talk about his LARP Inheritance, and Luke and Steve playing it together at Gen Con 2023. Follow Luke Crane: Website

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Flaming blood drips from the ceiling onto narrow ledges over a pool of fire-blood that’ll stick to you like napalm. Trap! A portcullis drops down in the doorway you came through, cutting you off from escape. The ledges collapse underneath you. Jump!

On a stationary center plinth is orc lawyer Janet Reno Nevada Esquire, wearing a pantsuit with heels. She’s chained to a massive lectern where the Book ov Blood & Fire rests. She’s bleeding fire, yelling her true name and the name of her true love (who’s somewhere nearby). You can heal Janet’s magical wounds to calm her down, but to break the curse you must bring her true love before her.

She wields the oversized Book ov Blood & Fire like a flail to knock you into the pool, or flings pages for a ranged attack. If a page hits you, make a mental save (with a solid debate argument) or suffer The Rules: When you bleed, your blood becomes fire. You must say your true name and the name of your true love. You become cursed if you read from the book.

Art: Tiger Wizard  Words: Steve Albertson

Story by: Andrew Bellury, Steve Albertson, Luke Crane

ANNOUNCEMENTS

All Dwarf drawings are in and we’ll be announcing the winners very soon!

Dungeon Cats pre-launch page is now live on the Epic Level's Kickstarter!

Games Omnivorous' FRONTIER SCUM Kickstarter is live now, and completely funded!

We’ll be podcasting live at Gamehole Con in Madison on Oct. 19th- 24th. 

Two new poster adventure maps are now available for purchase at Exalted Funeral.

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Thanks for listening to Season Two of the Epic Levels Mad Dungeon podcast, where D&D hip hop group Epic Levels and a guest create a system-neutral, playable dungeon room using improv, comedy, and lifetimes wasted on roleplaying games.

You can support us via Patreon for early episode releases, bonus map content, extra art, access to our discord server, and lots of other exclusive goodies.

Get nerd merch and stay up to date with socials: HERE

Mad Dungeon is hosted by Andrew Bellury, Steve Albertson, and produced by Zach Cowan.

Theme song by Epic Levels and beat by Inner Resting.

© 2023 Epic Levels. All characters in this adventure–even those based on real people–are entirely fictional.