Mad Dungeon

This week’s guest is Matthew Grau of WildFire Games and we talked about his upcoming CthulhuTech: The Shadow War Quick-Start Rules (V2), working with the scumdogs of the universe to create his deck-building game Gwar vs. Time, his stint at Riot Games building the world of League of Legends, and growing up in the Twin Cities with D&D’s Dave Arneson in his life.

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This pleasant cafe’s walls are lined with tables and cat-condos covered in a menagerie of delicious tacos, hot sauce and churros. The proprietors are Keeper, a kindly middle-aged woman who’ll train you to see a TacocaT, and Sage, an old, bearded, zen dude with long hair who’ll teach you to symbiotically bond with a TacocaT. They’re both wearing deer antlers covered in hanging crystals.

To see a TacoCaT, you must clear your mind and think only taco thoughts. When you do, there’s a ton of them. They’re everywhere and it’s cat chaos. They’re pouring out of an interdimensional TacocaT waterfall into a cuddle puddle pool in the center of the room.

A TacocaT is an adorable, squamous, symbiotic dream cat from the elemental plane of tacos. They have hard-taco-shell armor with fur tufts poking out between their plates, a hot-sauce hiss, and excrete delicious churros. When you bond with a TacocaT, they can regurgitate an infinite amount of tacos of whatever variety you can imagine, and they can attach to you to create a full body TacocaT armor. A TacocaT chooses its symbiotic host and bonds for life.

Art: Tiger Wizard  Words: Steve Albertson

Story by: Andrew Bellury, Steve Albertson, Matthew Grau

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This episode is sponsored by Exalted Funeral, and we talk about ARC: Doom Tabletop RPG by momatoes aka Bianca Canoza. It’s a rules-lite, tension-heavy, adventurous race against the clock to slay the apocalypse. 

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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! 

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

The Epic Levels - Armor Classy CDungeon is 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 we recap our time at Dragon Con 2023, including their group costume as characters from the Disney Wasteland, wrestling, RPG panels, and of course tons of gaming!

Steve ran our Mad Dungeon rooms using both Mystic Punks RPG and OSE - Old School Essentials, and playtested his Cursed Cabin RPG.

Andrew playtested his upcoming game Postcards from the Apocalypse, and finally got to play Battlestar Galactica: The Board Game (by Corey Konieczka, Fantasy Flight Games, 2008) and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Shadows of the Past.

Zach got to give Sentinel Comics: The Role Playing Game a spin.

We also played Kokoro: Avenue of the Kodama, Gwar vs. Time (by Matthew Grau), Artemis Spaceship Bridge Simulator, and Steve and Andrew debate the proper way to play Fishbowl.

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This episode is sponsored by Exalted Funeral, and we talk about Kosmosaurs by Ennie Award winning game designer Diogo Nogueira of Old Skull Publishing and art by Łukaskz Kowalczu.

You’re a dinosaur. You’re a Kosmo Ranger. You’re a Kosmosaur—a protector of the galaxy. You and your companions travel through the stars to help all sorts of people, planets, and organizations by preventing disasters, battling assassin robots, banishing chaos mutants from the Void Dimension, and facing all kinds of weird dangers.

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ANNOUNCEMENTS

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

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

The Epic Levels - Armor Classy CDungeon is 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 fictio

This week’s guest is Chris O’Neill of 9th Level Games . We talk  Mazes Fantasy Roleplaying,  Kobolds Ate My Baby and his latest Return to Dark Tower RPG.

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You step into the interior of a slot machine. The floor is an unstable pile of 10-foot diameter wooden nickels. In front of you are three massive wheels that spin vertically every time the giant troll Gorm Gasher puts a new nickel in the slot hundreds of feet above you. Roll a DEX save to avoid being hit by the giant wooden nickel. A sign reads, “Three crowns wins the jackpot!” Wheel symbols: 1) Good-cherries, 2) tooth, 3) sausage nunchucks, 4) numeral 9, 5) eyeball, 6) crown.

The game: Rig the wheels to hit the three crown jackpot, but remember the winning combination on the wheels are facing away from you. When you hit the jackpot, a magic crown prize materializes (1/day summon 4 ninjas or reroll one die). Then the floor opens up. You and the nickels spill into the giant casino’s shag carpet floor, that to you is like a forest.

Art: Tiger Wizard  Words: Steve Albertson

Story by: Andrew Bellury, Steve Albertson, Chris O’Neill

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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! 

We’ll all be partying at Dragon Con in Atlanta  Aug 31 - Sep 4

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

The Epic Levels - Armor Classy CDungeon is now available for purchase.

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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 Gavin Norman of Necrotic Gnome. We talk about OSE - Old School Essentials, and his incredibly successful Kickstarter campaign for Dolmenwood RPG with Exalted Funeral. The Kickstarter is live now though Sep. 8, 2023.

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In the center of the room is the Cauldron of Sadness. It has arms to stir itself and quick legs that dance and leap, yet it never spills a drop. It has a duality of goblin faces on either side. One is the quintessential personification of sadness, the other of happiness.

The game: PCs secretly write down six items that are connected to their past. Designate three as happy and three as sad. These items appear on tables. The cauldron tells you to each choose an item that isn’t your own, and add it to the cauldron. PCs tell the cauldron when they're done adding items.

Resolution: If more sad items were added, it opens a portal of sadness, and sorrow begins to take over the world. If more happy items were added, a portal of happiness. If an equal amount of happy and sad items were added, the cauldron shrinks down and becomes a small pouch. Once a day you may draw from the pouch to pull out a specific item that is meaningful to whoever you’re targeting. Roll a d6: 1-3 the item makes them sad, 4-6 the item makes them happy.

Art: Tiger Wizard  Words: Steve Albertson

Story by: Andrew Bellury, Steve Albertson, Gavin Norman

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Sky ov Crimson Flame this Saturday from 7 - 9 pm EST on the Goodman Games Twitch channel. 

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

We’ll all be partying at Dragon Con in Atlanta  Aug 31 - Sep 4.

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

 Armor Classy CDungeon is 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 Dragon Warrior and Tiger Wizard’s forever dungeon master Joshua Therrien. We talk about game mastering, preparing to run campaigns and deep diving into world building his campaign settings for The Scouring Campaign, The Wasteland Campaign and The Malagorn Campaign.

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Catwalks look down into the Idea Pool where aquatic creatures swim through liquid infinity. Elias Thugburger tells you the rules. Pay him a meaningful memory (lose it forever), and in exchange you may put together a fishing rod and cast it into the Idea Pool. The memory you put in influences what you pull out.

Assemble your fishing rod by choosing one rod, reel, hook and bait. Add up the combined numeric value of the four items: 4) World-enhancing idea. 5-8) Banal idea. 9-11) World-changing idea that spawns a new religion. 12) World-ending idea.

Rods: Corn stalk (1), Harpoon (2), Spine (3)
Reels: Snail (1), Celestial hair (2), Hoof (3)
Hooks: Molten plasma (1), Kraken beak (2), Superglued toenails (3)
Bait: Gummy worms (1), Old boot (2), Photo of your best friend (3)

Cast your line to pull out a fish who whispers the idea in your ear. Once put into the world, this idea spreads like a virus, passing sonically, from mouth to ear to brain, and it never leaves one’s brain.

Art: Tiger Wizard  Words: Steve Albertson
Story by: Andrew Bellury, Steve Albertson, Joshua Therrien

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ANNOUNCEMENTS

Epic Levels is hosting a Best Dwarf Drawing Contest! The winners will be selected by our host of celebrity judges, David Hoskins, Erol Otus, and Tiger Wizard!

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We’ll all be at Dragon Con in Atlanta  Aug 31 - Sep 4  . Dragon Warrior will be running games.

Fri 9:00 AM - Mystic Punks: Mad Dungeon Rooms
Sat 9:00 AM and Sun 1:00 PM - Old School Essentials: Mad Dungeon Rooms

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We’ll be podcasting live at Gamehole Con in Madison on Oct. 19th- 24th. Dragon Warrior will be running games. Sign ups are now available. Thursday, Friday and Saturday at 10:00 AM CST - Old School Essentials: Mad Dungeon Rooms

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Our physical adventure map for The Heal World is now available for purchase at Exalted Funeral, with art from our guest Brian Colon of Vast Grimm. 

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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 we recap Dragon Warrior and Tiger Wizard's time at Gen Con 2023.

Steve ran season 2 Mad Dungeon rooms using OSE - Old School Essentials. He attended The Ennies ceremony, attended several panels and played Hackmaster, Rocket Age and was invited by Luke Crane to play in his LARP, Inheritance. 

Andrew manned the booth selling Epic Levels wares alongside Justin Sirois (Severed Books) and Brian Colin (Creature Curations, Vast Grimm). He also watched the band Magic Sword perform, played Ninja City RPG (DCC) with it's creator Joey Royale, and mingled with lots of creators and had them draw skulls.

Both attended Luke Stratton's (Pirate Borg) birthday party where they hung out with friends from around the world including Diogo Nogueira (Primal Quest), Luke Gygax (Gaxx Worx), Stockholm Kartel folks: Johan Nohr (MÖRK BORG), Carl Niblaus (Death in Space), Christian Sahlén (CY-BORG), and many more.

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This episode is sponsored by Exalted Funeral, and we talk about SDM - Synthetic Dream Machine: Eternal Return Key Chromademon Edition by Luka Rejec.

A psychedelic roleplaying game with dice and a referee

SDM: the anti-canon rpg system  formerly known as SEACAT 

Eternal Return Key: an alternate start for the Ultraviolet Grasslands and the Black City

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Announcements:

Epic Levels is hosting a Best Dwarf Drawing Contest! The winners will be selected by our host of celebrity judges, all accomplished Dwarf Drawing champs! David Hoskins, Erol Otus, and Tiger Wizard!

We’ll all be partying at Dragon Con in Atlanta Aug 31 - Sep 4. 

Our physical adventure map for The Heal World is now available for purchase.

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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.

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The Epic Levels Mad Dungeon podcast is hosted by Andrew Bellury, Rob Bellury & Steve Albertson. 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 New Zealand writer, artist, musician and game designer Darcy Perry. We talk about his Ennie nominated RPG DuckQuest, Star Hat Miniatures, Petty Gods, and Quack Keep.

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Citrol the Orang-a-Tang: He was born a glowing star troll, but was cursed to be the tree of memory and thought in the center of this room. The moranges grow from his boughs. He knows which person each fruit is linked to. He has the face of an orangutan-troll in the center of the tree trunk and small, nubby arms to eat his own fruit. Simian trolls catch and feed moranges to their master Citrol.

Moranges: Peeling this feathered fruit reveals meat of glowing, shimmering stars. When picked, wings sprout and they soar around the room. You have to catch it to eat it, earning the right to consume the memories of the multiverse. Eat the fruit and gain +1 on an intelligence stat for 24 hours, and learn the memories of one person.

A juicing machine is hidden away in the corner. If you mix more than one morange and drink the juice, the history of your world changes in a significant way, and for everyone else, the world has always been like this.

Art: Tiger Wizard  Words: Steve Albertson
Story by: Andrew Bellury, Steve Albertson, Darcy Perry

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This episode is sponsored by Exalted Funeral, and we talk about Folk Arcana, written and illustrated by Johnny Bloozit. 

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Come find us at Gen Con 2023 on Aug. 3-6. We'll be sharing a table with Brain Colon's Creature Curation. Epic Levels is hosting a Best Dwarf Drawing Contest! The Heal World is now available for purchase.

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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 Gavriel Quiroga and we talk about his Worlds of Quiroga projects: Hell Night,  Neurocity, and Warpland. Check out the Hell Night playlist.

Follow Gavriel: at Website - FB - FB Group - IG - Twitter - Spotify

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In the corner is a titanic skull-shaped wasp hive that has a steady stream of gooey acid pouring from its mouth. Consuming acid from the pool gives you a psychedelic experience. In the hive are horse-sized drones and one queen named Avispa the Wild Child. All of the wasps have tendrils that look like handlebars on their midsections that they use to grapple and attack. Avispa secretes psychedelic acid. If she chooses to sting you, save or transform into a mindless queen wasp.

Stinger Gang: It’s a right of passage for these mutant-biker wasp riders to come here and tame a wasp mount, a “stinger;” but today’s a special day, a wedding. They’re rooting on a member trying to coax the queen out to turn him into a “stinger” so his new wife can ride him as a mount.

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This episode is sponsored by Exalted Funeral, and we talk about the adventure Void Lord by Frank Gillam & Robb Leef, for both Old School Essentials and D&D 5E. This is part of Exalted Funeral’s The Endless Summoner sale, where from July 26 - 31, 2023, they’ll take 20% off of all sales.

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ANNOUNCEMENTS

Look for Tiger Wizard at the Southern Fried Gaming Expo this weekend.
 
Come find us at Gen Con 2023 on Aug. 3-6. We'll be sharing a table with Brain Colon's Creature Curation.

Buy our adventure map for The Heal World.

Our Best Dwarf Drawing Contest!

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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 

This week’s guest is psychedelic indie-rock musician Levi Nunez of Loot the Body. We talk about Skate Wizards RPG, his #Dungeon23 project where he’s writing one song a month based on other creator’s #Dungeon23 projects, including “Ricksanthemum Garden” based on Mad Dungeon episode 206 w/ Brendan LaSalle,   and his latest EP +5EP.

Follow Levi: at Bandcamp - YouTube - IG - Twitter - Mastodon

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Changarro: This temple is a simple restaurant covered by a tent with strings of lights.  An Aztec-style mural contains the sacred 7-layers that are cleverly embedded within the image. A modron mariachi band gives you musical clues if you’re on the right track.

The God Burrito: In the center is the proprietor, a 30-foot godhead burrito wurm with short arms, making burritos with his little hands. Build the sacred 7-layer burrito and it becomes your sentient burrito steed and all curses are lifted. Build a burrito with the wrong ingredients and you become the cursed God Burrito.

Art: Tiger Wizard  Words: Steve Albertson

Story by: Andrew Bellury, Steve Albertson, Levi Nunez

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This episode is sponsored by Exalted Funeral, and we talk about Mystic Punks: Crypt. Available July 26th for Exalted Funeral's Endless Summoner Sale. 

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ANNOUNCEMENTS

Come find us at Gen Con 2023 

Epic Levels is hosting a Best Dwarf Drawing Contest!

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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.

Use the hashtag: #maddungeon

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 at EpicLevelsRapGods.com

instagram.com/epic_levels

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Subscribe to us on your favorite podcast player, leave a comment and tell your friends.

The Epic Levels Mad Dungeon podcast is hosted by Andrew Bellury, Rob Bellury & Steve Albertson, and produced by Zach Cowan.

Theme song by Epic Levels and beat by Inner Resting AKA Mason Grant who also makes tabletop games that you can purchase at Gamma Wave Games.

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

This week’s guest is Jarrett Crader. We talk about his history of editing and proofreading RPGs and the launch of his new company Space Penguin Ink, and discuss the products he’s selling: Adrift, Beyond the Silver Scream, Distress Signals, Dread Nights, Garden of Corda.

Follow Jarrett: at Website - IG - Twitter

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General Paste, an anthropomorphic tube of toothpaste, rides on a storm cloud that rains down green rock candy that he wants you to eat. Rock candy floods from a large mouth into a river that flows around a dentist office and ends in a grate. Scattered throughout the room are 32 decayed and jagged teeth minions waiting to ambush you. D32 of your teeth rebe if your teeth touch the rock candy.

Teeth minions: Teeth who rebel grow legs & arms equipped with hammers or pliers, and rip themselves from your mouth. They grow to a foot tall and attempt to liberate the rest of your teeth with the rock candy or through violence.

If you have no teeth left, the rock candy has no effect and the teeth minions leave you alone.

Art: Tiger Wizard  Words: Steve Albertson

Story by: Andrew Bellury, Steve Albertson, Jarrett Crader

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This episode is sponsored by Exalted Funeral, and we talk about Vorpal Almanac by Levi Combs of Planet X Games.

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ANNOUNCEMENTS

Come find us at Gen Con 2023 on Aug. 3-6.

The Heal World poster / Best Dwarf Drawing Contest! 

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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.

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The Epic Levels Mad Dungeon podcast is hosted by Andrew Bellury, Rob Bellury & Steve Albertson, and produced by Zach Cowan.

Theme song by Epic Levels and beat by Inner Resting AKA Mason Grant who also makes tabletop games that you can purchase at Gamma Wave Games.

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

This week we celebrate Andrew's birthday by renting a castle and playing a pile of games:

Thunder Road: Vendetta • Taco Cat Goat Cheese Pizza • Billiards (Cut Throat) • Jenga • Wavelength • BattleCards • Magic the Hammering (MtG Warhammer 40k commander meets Warhammer 40k Kill Team) • Dragon Death Race • Postcards from the Apocalypse • Fishbowl (Celebrity) • MtG: Lord of the Rings Commander

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Epic Levels is hosting a Best Dwarf Drawing Contest! The winners will be selected by our host of celebrity judges, all accomplished Dwarf Drawing champs! David Hoskins, Erol Otus, and Tiger Wizard!

We chatted about doing this on our Old-School Essentials episode, and so, we’re really doing it! The contest will be open for submissions through August 17th 2023. You may submit a Dwarf you’ve already drawn, or draw a new one. You must be the author and owner of the Dwarf Drawing, and be okay with us sharing it along with your name on our social media. You can submit any kind of Dwarf you like. Warhammer mohawk Dwarves, Gimli’s, Silly named Snow White Dwarves, Heck! Even Dark Sun Mul (Dwarf Human Hybrid) will be acceptable!

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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.

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The Epic Levels Mad Dungeon podcast is hosted by Andrew Bellury, Rob Bellury & Steve Albertson.

Produced by Zach Cowan.

Theme song by Epic Levels and beat by Inner Resting AKA Mason Grant who also makes tabletop games that you can purchase at Gamma Wave Games.

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

This week’s guest is Andre Novoa of Games Omnivourous. We talk about Hex Omnivourous, (Undying Sands, Bottled Sea and The Hexcrawl Toolbox), Mausritter by Isaac Williams, Manifestus Omnivorous, Frontier Scum, Death Robot Jungle LP, Putrescence Regnant (MÖRK BORG LP) and playing music in general.

Follow Andre: at Website - IG - Twitter

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This sandy beach has a deep pool of water in the center containing The Locktopus, a large skeletal octopus with bone tentacles that each end in a key numbered 1-8. This is an avatar of the octopus god Godtopus.

The Octobox is submerged 20 feet below the water. When the box is unlocked with a key, it rises out of the water and opens to reveal an octopus salad. The Locktopus says, “It’s the time of judgment. Eat me or be eaten.” If you allow The Locktopus to eat you, go up one level and you’re now a cleric of Godtopus. If you eat the octopus salad, you’re judged and die in d6 days.

Art: Tiger Wizard  Words: Steve Albertson
Story by: Andrew Bellury, Steve Albertson, Andre Novoa

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ANNOUNCEMENTS

Our physical adventure map for The Heal World is now available.

Epic Levels is hosting a Best Dwarf Drawing Contest! 

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Let us know if you run this or any of our other adventures and use the hashtag: #maddungeon

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.

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Subscribe to us on your favorite podcast player, leave a comment and tell your friends.

Get nerd merch and stay up to date at EpicLevelsRapGods.com

The Epic Levels Mad Dungeon podcast is hosted by Andrew Bellury, Rob Bellury & Steve Albertson, and produced by Zach Cowan.

Theme song by Epic Levels and beat by Inner Resting AKA Mason Grant who also makes tabletop games that you can purchase at Gamma Wave Games.

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

This week’s guest is Joey Royale of Get Haunted Industries. We talk about Weird Heroes of Public Access - Tales From Fairhaven Vol. 1, Get Haunted Industries, Darkest Dice RPG and Chick Tracts in general, Ninja City (DCC), One of Us #1 (DCC), and Stay Sick! Follow Joey HERE and Etsy

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Pizza Parlor: There are eight tables set with pizza accouterments. In the center of each table is a pizza sculpture shaped like your favorite pizza mascots.

The Get Haunt-afire Explosion is a two-piece (drums & banjo) animatronic band shaped like large connected pizza slices. They play the song, “That’s Amore” when you enter the room. If you can sever this connection, it’ll un-animate the pizza golems.

Eight 10-foot tall windows, two on each wall, are covered with metal shutters that roll open when the band finishes playing. In the sky is a pizza moon with a face who stares back at you from every window. The moonlight animates the pizza golems. Closing all the shutters renders the pizza golems lifeless.

When you kill an animated pizza golem, it combines with another pizza golem and they double their hit points. When all eight pizza golems are combined, they refer to themself as The Omega Slice.

Art: Tiger Wizard  Words: Steve Albertson
Story by: Andrew Bellury, Steve Albertson, Joey Royale

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This episode is sponsored by Exalted Funeral, and we talk about UVG 2E, The Ultraviolet Grasslands and the Black City by designer, artist, and writer Luka Rejec.

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Let us know if you run this or any of our other adventures and use the hashtag: #maddungeon

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.

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Subscribe to us on your favorite podcast player, leave a comment and tell your friends.

The Epic Levels Mad Dungeon podcast is hosted by Andrew Bellury, Rob Bellury & Steve Albertson, and produced by Zach Cowan.

Theme song by Epic Levels and beat by Inner Resting AKA Mason Grant who also makes tabletop games that you can purchase at Gamma Wave Games.

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

This week’s guest is Ian McGarty of Silver Bulette. We talk about Jungle Incursion into the Lair of the Batmen for MCC, Fantastic Geographic Issue 2 and upcoming issue 3, A Night at the Lamb’s Bray, Fire In The MOHLE (MCC), and the Independent Publisher’s Union.

Follow Ian at: Website - FB - DriveThruRPG

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Eel Team Six, humanoid eels in full SWAT gear with assault rifles, are finishing their briefing to take down the cartel leader Mermethod Man. They explode a hole in the coral reef floor and repel down to the mermeth lab. They’re coming in hot!

Mossy Mermeth Lab: The moss that grows on the walls here is being processed into the drug mossy mermeth. Tweaked out, sharp-toothed mermaids work in waist-deep water to make this dry narcotic powder.

Art: Tiger Wizard  Words: Steve Albertson

Story by: Andrew Bellury, Steve Albertson, Ian McGarty

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This episode is sponsored by Exalted Funeral, and we talk about Abyss of Hallucinations Box Set with Map and Poster, a MÖRK BORG setting inspired by Aleister Crowley's Book of Lies, by Max Moon.

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ANNOUNCEMENTS

Our physical adventure map for The Heal World is now available for purchase at Exalted Funeral.

Epic Levels is hosting a Best Dwarf Drawing Contest! 

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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.

Epiclevelsrapgods.com

instagram.com/epic_levels

The Epic Levels Mad Dungeon podcast is hosted by Andrew Bellury, Rob Bellury & Steve Albertson, and produced by Zach Cowan.

Theme song by Epic Levels and beat by Inner Resting AKA Mason Grant who also makes tabletop games that you can purchase at Gamma Wave Games.

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

This week’s guest is Banana Chan of Game and a Curry, and we talk about their latest project Forgery, a solo horror paint-by-numbers TTRPG about an art forger commissioned to recreate a cursed painting.

Follow Banana Chan at: Website - IG - YouTube - Twitter - TikTok

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A blue graffgoyle sits on a stained couch holding the can of Blue Demon. He loves hip hop culture.

Can of Blue Demon: Spray paint a power word: LOCK (lock or unlock all the doors). SHOW (see the outlines of the people in the building like X-ray specs). PAL (someone in the structure acts as if they’ve been your close friend forever). LORE (knowledge of the building’s history). LOT (the power to cloud minds, the building’s there, but people can’t see it). HIVE (look through the eyes of a randomly determined occupant, and hear what they’re thinking. Jump to another person within sight). Instructions are written on the can. Corruption: You slowly turn into a blue graffgoyle with every use.

Art: Tiger Wizard  Words: Steve Albertson
Story by: Andrew Bellury, Steve Albertson, Banana Chan

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This episode is sponsored by Exalted Funeral, and we talk about Lilliputian: Adventure on the Open Seas by Matthew Morris. 

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Our The Heal World map is now available for purchase.

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Epic Levels is hosting a Best Dwarf Drawing Contest! 

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Atlanta Game Creators Cabal will be held at Argosy in Atlanta, GA on Thursday June 8th from 7pm - 10pm.

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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.

Epiclevelsrapgods.com

patreon.com/epiclevels

instagram.com/epic_levels

twitter.com/epic_levels

facebook.com/epiclevelsrapgods

Get nerd merch and stay up to date at EpicLevelsRapGods.com

The Epic Levels Mad Dungeon podcast is hosted by Andrew Bellury, Rob Bellury & Steve Albertson, and produced by Zach Cowan.

Theme song by Epic Levels and beat by Inner Resting AKA Mason Grant who also makes tabletop games that you can purchase at Gamma Wave Games.

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

This week’s guest is Levi Combs of Planet X Games. We talk about his currently Kickstarting project Chainsaw Warlock, Hecatomb Creeps and Other Ungodly Bastards, all about evil NPCs.

Follow Levi at: Exalted Funeral - IG - FB - Twitter

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This primeval room of stone has jagged, ornamental spikes protruding from the floor, and a jar dispenser at each door. Hundreds of bulging, slime-filled polyps hang from the ceiling.

Three spigots: Each gargoyle-faced spigot has a vat on top where you are to place a green slime, ochre jelly and gak respectively. When each vat is filled, turn the spigot’s massive stone wheel (strength check) to process the ooze. It moves through runic circle grooves into a crucible that builds a chainslime.

Chainslime: This symbiotic chainsaw has a whirling blade of slime and three modes: green slime, ochre jelly or gak.

Art: Tiger Wizard  Words: Steve Albertson

Story by: Andrew Bellury, Steve Albertson, Levi Combs

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ANNOUNCEMENTS

The Heal World is now available at Exalted Funeral.

Epic Levels is hosting a Best Dwarf Drawing Contest! 

Atlanta Game Creators Cabal  at Argosy in Atlanta, GA on June 8, 7pm - 10pm.

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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.

Let us know if you run this or any of our other adventures and use the hashtag: #maddungeon

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.

Epiclevelsrapgods.com

patreon.com/epiclevels

instagram.com/epic_levels

twitter.com/epic_levels

facebook.com/epiclevelsrapgods

Subscribe to us on your favorite podcast player, leave a comment and tell your friends.

Get nerd merch and stay up to date at EpicLevelsRapGods.com

The Epic Levels Mad Dungeon podcast is hosted by Andrew Bellury, Rob Bellury & Steve Albertson, and produced by Zach Cowan.

Theme song by Epic Levels and beat by Inner Resting AKA Mason Grant who also makes tabletop games that you can purchase at Gamma Wave Games.

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

This week’s guest is Brenda Ho of Weird Works. We talk about their tarot decks  Adventurer's Tarot: Empress Deck and Eldritch Overload.

Follow Weird Works at:  FB - IG - Twitter - TikToc - Patreon

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Jewel of Jarnjeeves: The self-mummified corpse of the turban-wearing mystic Jarnjeeves sits in meditation, holding a magic orb, at the top of a tall pedestal that’s surrounded by a treacherous and trapped staircase (false steps, spikes, turns into a slide, etc.). Jarnjeeves separated himself into two parts. The good part is the husk you see who made it to Nirvana. The evil Jarnjeeves is alive and trapped inside the orb. A menagerie of two-headed animals float in various orbits around the orb.

 This grapefruit-size crystal sphere is extremely fragile, and if broken will release the evil wizard.

Art: Tiger Wizard  Words: Steve Albertson

Story by: Andrew Bellury, Steve Albertson, Brenda Ho

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Epic Levels is hosting a Best Dwarf Drawing Contest! The winners will be selected by our host of celebrity judges, all accomplished Dwarf Drawing champs! David Hoskins, Erol Otus, and Tiger Wizard!

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Atlanta Game Creators Cabal, a social event for board game, card game, tabletop RPG, and video game creators. The event will be held at Argosy in Atlanta, GA on Thursday June 8th from 7pm - 10pm. RSVP HERE

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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.

Let us know if you run this or any of our other adventures and use the hashtag: #maddungeon

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.

Epiclevelsrapgods.com

patreon.com/epiclevels

instagram.com/epic_levels

twitter.com/epic_levels

facebook.com/epiclevelsrapgods

Subscribe to us on your favorite podcast player, leave a comment and tell your friends.

Get nerd merch and stay up to date at EpicLevelsRapGods.com

The Epic Levels Mad Dungeon podcast is hosted by Andrew Bellury, Rob Bellury & Steve Albertson, and produced by Zach Cowan.

Theme song by Epic Levels and beat by Inner Resting AKA Mason Grant who also makes tabletop games that you can purchase at Gamma Wave Games.

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

Zach talks about playing Tape to Tape, running a Call of Cthulhu campaign, Evil Dead: The Game, and the Hyperborea campaign he's playing in with Andrew.

Andrew continues to playtest his upcoming Dungeon Cats game and prepares for his Warhammer 40k Kill Teams extravaganza.

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This episode is sponsored by Exalted Funeral, and we talk about The Mall., an official adventure module for Liminal Horror (3 stat roll under, fail forward TTRPG hack of Cairn) by Goblin Archives, for and 3 - 6 players.

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We interview Gavriel Quiroga about his new Kickstarter for NEUROCITY - Colorblind Edition. Inspired by sci-fi works like Alphaville, 1984, Brave New World, THX1132 and Dark City. Neurocity is a subterranean city complex crowned by a glitched digital sun ruled by an ever watchful supercomputer named I.S.A.C. 

Support the Kickstarter here:

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/gavrielquiroga/neurocity-colorblind-edition

Follow Gavriel: Website

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Epic Levels is hosting a Best Dwarf Drawing Contest! The winners will be selected by our host of celebrity judges, all accomplished Dwarf Drawing champs! David Hoskins, Erol Otus, and Tiger Wizard!

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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.

Epiclevelsrapgods.com

patreon.com/epiclevels

JOIN OUR DISCORD

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Subscribe to us on your favorite podcast player, leave a comment and tell your friends.

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The Epic Levels Mad Dungeon podcast is hosted by Andrew Bellury, Rob Bellury & Steve Albertson.

Produced by Zach Cowan.

Theme song by Epic Levels and beat by Inner Resting AKA Mason Grant who also makes tabletop games that you can purchase at Gamma Wave Games.

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

This week’s guest is Keith Matejk of Thunderworks Games. We talk about how you can play Roll Player and Cartographers with big groups of players, and how you can play every Thunderworks game solo. We then dig into the art and gameplay of Goblin Vaults.

Follow Thunderworks Games at: Website - FB - IG - Twitter

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Dance Dungeon: Water tubes line massive mirrored walls to power the water wheel torture machine. This device has a lever that goes from “little jig” to “dance machine.” Tethers connect goblins to the machine and Lockwork Goblin.

Lockwork Goblin: A colossal goblin-shaped golem, made of thousands of locks of all types, has exterior ledges and steps to climb it if you’re agile enough. It’s lonely and wants friends, so it violently brainwashes goblins with the machine to be its pal and perform dance numbers. In the center of its torso is a prison cell containing goblins pleading for you to save them. Its forehead contains a vault door that leads to emotional baggage and gold. It has hundreds of scraggly teeth that are one-use magic keys that’ll open any lock. 

Dance Goblins: Converted goblins wear red thriller jackets, a lock necklace and are tethered by the head to the Lockwork Goblin. The tether is like an addiction, with strong withdrawals when detached. Rewiring works 100% on goblins, but has a 50% success rate for everyone else.

Art: Tiger Wizard  Words: Steve Albertson

Story by: Andrew Bellury, Steve Albertson, Keith Matejk

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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.

Let us know if you run this or any of our other adventures and use the hashtag: #maddungeon

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.

Epiclevelsrapgods.com

patreon.com/epiclevels

instagram.com/epic_levels

twitter.com/epic_levels

facebook.com/epiclevelsrapgods

Subscribe to us on your favorite podcast player, leave a comment and tell your friends.

Get nerd merch and stay up to date at EpicLevelsRapGods.com

The Epic Levels Mad Dungeon podcast is hosted by Andrew Bellury, Rob Bellury & Steve Albertson, and produced by Zach Cowan.

Theme song by Epic Levels and beat by Inner Resting AKA Mason Grant who also makes tabletop games that you can purchase at Gamma Wave Games.

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

This week’s guest is Tony Vasinda of PlusOneExp where they make bespoke, alchemical beard & lip balms inspired by classic tabletop tropes, and YouTube and podcast content from interviews with creators to actual play one-shots and campaigns. We talk about his upcoming space crawler Through The Void utilizing their Together We Go system.

Follow Tony: Website - Facebook – Instagram – Twitter – YouTube

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Dungeon’s Got Talent: This crowded arena has three tiers and a large circular field with a lone microphone in the center. Posters of other champion finalists line the walls. The judges booth juts out from the center of the 2nd level.

Trap: A large cage drops over anyone around the microphone, and minotaurs drench you with bad blood to enrage Nightmare Folklore who emerges from the floor. Fight or out perform the jazz bull to score points with the judges. A minotaur jazz band accompanies the fight from an orchestra pit.

Nightmare Folklore: This giant, intelligent jazz bull has horns like saxophones. “Fighting is like jazz. You have to break tradition.” Timing is important against his sonic attack (damage & save or be deafened), but jazz has variable timing with his hoof stomping (haste or slow effect).

Judges: Matador Dave (the spiritual wizard), Thragg (long retired dungeon delver with sorrowful eyes), and Labyrinth Larry (makes mazes for the local newspaper) each have a red buzzer they hit when they don’t like something. Survive and impress the judges, and they’ll invite you back for the finals. Winner gets a ring of three wishes.

Art: Tiger Wizard  Words: Steve Albertson

Story by: Andrew Bellury, Steve Albertson, Tony Vasinda

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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.

Let us know if you run this or any of our other adventures and use the hashtag: #maddungeon

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.

Epiclevelsrapgods.com

patreon.com/epiclevels

instagram.com/epic_levels

twitter.com/epic_levels

facebook.com/epiclevelsrapgods

Subscribe to us on your favorite podcast player, leave a comment and tell your friends.

Get nerd merch and stay up to date at EpicLevelsRapGods.com

The Epic Levels Mad Dungeon podcast is hosted by Andrew Bellury, Rob Bellury & Steve Albertson, and produced by Zach Cowan.

Theme song by Epic Levels and beat by Inner Resting AKA Mason Grant who also makes tabletop games that you can purchase at Gamma Wave Games.

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