Critical Fayle DM & The Goons: Hellmouth High

Welcome to Hellmouth High: A D&D Podcast for the New Millennium! From the creators of The Strahdcast comes a brand-new homebrew D&D podcast set in small-town New England at the turn of the 21st century.

CONTENT WARNING: This episode contains mentions/discussions of violence, drug use, and bullying.

Join the Gaggle on Patreon to unlock hundreds of hours of bonus content including behind-the-scenes videos, bonus audio, fanart, and a 15% off merch discount when our Hellmouth High gear hits the Etsy shop!

PATREON: https://www.patreon.com/criticalfayledm
WEBSITE: https://www.criticalfayledm.com/
TikTok & Insta: @CriticalFayleDM

THE CAST:
Trevor William Fayle as The DM
Kay Devine-Jones as Kayla Buckley
Ned Pryce as Jesse Ventura
Tyler Kanter as Stoner Jon
Campbell O'Hare as Russell Savoky

Lead Producer: Adam Miller
Original Music: Bryan Black

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Welcome to Hellmouth High: A D&D Podcast for the New Millennium! From the creators of The Strahdcast comes a brand-new homebrew D&D podcast set in small-town New England at the turn of the 21st century. Life Is Strange meets Buffy the Vampire Slayer, it’s a heartful coming-of-age horror with strokes of mythology & religion and a healthy dose of Millennial nostalgia, delivered with the floor-it style gameplay you’ve come to expect from the Goons.

CONTENT WARNING: This episode contains mentions/discussions of violence, drug use, and bullying.

Join the Gaggle on Patreon to unlock hundreds of hours of bonus content including behind-the-scenes videos, bonus audio, fanart, and a 15% off merch discount when our Hellmouth High gear hits the Etsy shop!

PATREON: https://www.patreon.com/criticalfayledm
WEBSITE: https://www.criticalfayledm.com/
TikTok & Insta: @CriticalFayleDM

THE CAST:
Trevor William Fayle as The DM
Kay Devine-Jones as Kayla Buckley
Ned Pryce as Jesse Ventura
Tyler Kanter as Stoner Jon
Campbell O'Hare as Russell Savoky

Lead Producer: Adam Miller
Original Music: Bryan Black

Support the show

Welcome to Hellmouth High: A D&D Podcast for the New Millennium! From the creators of The Strahdcast comes a brand-new homebrew D&D podcast set in small-town New England at the turn of the 21st century. Life Is Strange meets Buffy the Vampire Slayer, it’s a heartful coming-of-age horror with strokes of mythology & religion and a healthy dose of Millennial nostalgia, delivered with the floor-it style gameplay you’ve come to expect from the Goons.

CONTENT WARNING: This episode contains mentions/discussions of alcoholism, drug use, and bullying.

Our Session 0 is available now in both video and podcast form to Patreon subscribers at any paid tier! Join the Gaggle to unlock hundreds of hours of bonus content including behind-the-scenes videos, bonus audio, fanart, and a 15% off merch discount when our Hellmouth High gear hits the Etsy shop!

PATREON: https://www.patreon.com/criticalfayledm
WEBSITE: https://www.criticalfayledm.com/
TikTok & Insta: @CriticalFayleDM

THE CAST:
Trevor William Fayle as The DM
Kay Devine-Jones as Kayla Buckley
Ned Pryce as Jesse Ventura
Tyler Kanter as Stoner Jon
Campbell O'Hare as Russell Savoky

Lead Producer: Adam Miller
Original Music: Bryan Black

This episode is dedicated to one of our top Kickstarter supporters, TECHNOWAFFLE! Thank you to all our Kickstarter backers for making this adventure possible.

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This is the FINAL WEEK of our Hellmouth Hiatus! If you can believe it, the wait is over, and Hellmouth High premieres live on YouTube at 12PM Eastern on Sunday Sept. 27th! Join the Goons and Gaggle live in the chat as we encounter our new world, new characters, and all the new mean girl drops on Kay's sound board! 

This week, we conclude our two-part reading of Trevor's original Strahdcast prequel tale "First Flight" that tells the story of Dmitri's flight from his family, seizure of the gem, and arrival at the wizard's tower where our party finds him during our adventure.

For hours of bonus content, fan art, secret backstories and behind-the-scenes clips, subscribe to our Patreon or check out our merch at our Etsy store!

Website: https://www.criticalfayledm.com/
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The Hellmouth Hiatus is winding down, which means we're only TWO WEEKS AWAY from the first day of school! Did you do your summer reading? That Scarlet Letter book report isn't gonna write itself! This week, we're kicking off a two-part reading of Trevor's original Strahdcast prequel tale "First Flight" that tells the story of Dmitri's flight from his family, seizure of the gem, and arrival at the wizard's tower where our party finds him during our adventure.

Hellmouth High premieres live on YouTube at 12PM Eastern on Sunday Sept. 27th! Join the Goons and Gaggle live in the chat as we encounter our new world, new characters, and all the new mean girl drops on Kay's sound board!

For hours of bonus content, fan art, secret backstories and behind-the-scenes clips, subscribe to our Patreon or check out our merch at our Etsy store!

Website: https://www.criticalfayledm.com/
TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@criticalfayledm
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/criticalfayledm/
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/criticalfayledm

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This week, we're playing The Game That Goes There, brought to us by The Liv Project and co-created with Humanaut! September is Suicide Prevention Awareness Month and September 6th-12th is National Suicide Prevention Week. In recognition of this time, we're playing the game that invites us to go to those unmentionable dark places in our minds we’d rather not visit. Don’t worry, though. You won’t be going there alone. 

The game is intended for ages 13+ and has been approved by a team of therapists and mental health advisors.

CONTENT WARNING: Today's episode contains honest discussions of mental health and trauma, including gender dysphoria, depression, suicide and suicidal ideation, body image and weight, alcohol/substance abuse, addiction, and child abuse.

The extended video version of today's episode is available for purchase for $10 on our Patreon, with all proceeds going to benefit The Liv Project. 

Buy the video here: https://www.patreon.com/criticalfayledm/posts/game-that-goes-168761371

Buy the game here: https://shopthelivproject.com/products/the-game-that-goes-there 

The Liv Project is a non-profit organization determined to take the conversation about youth mental health out of the shadows. We collaborate with youth and mental health professionals to share thoughtful experiences and creative tools aimed at sparking the kind of fearless conversations that could save young lives.

Resources from the folks at The Liv Project: 

• 988 - Suicide and Crisis Lifeline 
• Text LIV to 741741 to connect with Crisis Text Line 
• The Trevor Project - Call 1-866-803-3699 or Text START to 678-678

Discussion Guides:

I'm Worried About Myself

I'm Worried About Someone

Connect w/ The Liv Project:

• https://thelivproject.org/
• Instagram: The_Liv_Project

The Liv Project is a nonprofit organization, so you can support them by making a tax-deductible donation, purchasing merch, purchasing The Game That Goes There, or booking a screening of the film MY SISTER LIV or a creative arts workshop for your community.

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WELCOME TO RHI TALK! Trevor and Campbell join the newest addition to the Goon Fam, Rhi Agnew, in the studio to chat about the pandemic-era Curse of Strahd campaign that laid the foundation for the Strahdcast, the significance of character voices in D&D, and how much we adore our Ghosts of Saltmarsh campaign, Darkened Tides! To catch Rhi's performances in our Twitch campaigns Lovecraft Island and Chariot of the Goons, head to our YouTube channel where the VODs of all our Twitch streams are available!

Tales of the Dead Bard: https://shows.acast.com/talesofthedeadbard

Lovecraft Island: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d3avgaQ4EJs&list=PLNKsmQ5QgfHsYlvDBKtkhzo32BEp4tSaj&index=2

Chariot of the Goons: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AunGcuSaKMU&list=PLNKsmQ5QgfHtdALjvbtdaX1l5t6pX-Qlt

As we prepare for the launch of Hellmouth High in September, we'll be rolling out bonus goodies here on the main podcast feed every single week. If this chat with Rhi makes you curious about checking out Darkened Tides, subscribe to our Patreon at the $10 level to unlock a year and a half's worth of backlog, with new episodes released on the first of every month!

For hours of bonus content, fan art, secret backstories and behind-the-scenes clips, subscribe to our Patreon or check out our merch at our Etsy store!

Website: https://www.criticalfayledm.com/
TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@criticalfayledm
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/criticalfayledm/
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/criticalfayledm

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What's the craziest place you've ever made WHOOPEE? IT'S THE NEWLYGOON GAME! Join Goon sweethearts of 12 years, Trevor & Campbell, as they discover just how well they know each other in this latest installment of our Summer '26 Hellmouth Hiatus series.

As we prepare for the launch of Hellmouth High in September, we'll be rolling out bonus goodies here on the main podcast feed every single week. This week, it's a brand new, never-before-heard bonus episode! If you enjoy what you hear, leave a comment with a question you'd like the sweethearts to answer next time they play the NewlyGoon Game.

For hours of bonus content, fan art, secret backstories and behind-the-scenes clips, subscribe to our Patreon or check out our merch at our Etsy store!

Website: https://www.criticalfayledm.com/
TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@criticalfayledm
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/criticalfayledm/
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/criticalfayledm

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Our Summer '26 Hellmouth Hiatus continues! As we prepare for the launch of Hellmouth High in September, we'll be rolling out bonus goodies here on the main podcast feed every single week. This week, we plucked Darkened Tides Ep. 4: Snake Weasel Manor from behind the Patreon paywall and offer it now to all of you! In this episode, our adventurers get in the first scuffle of their journey. It gets...hairy. The first 3 episodes of Darkened Tides are also here on the main feed to get you caught up! 

If you enjoy our band of seafaring weirdos, new episodes of Darkened Tides are released on the first of every month exclusively on Patreon for subscribers at the $10 Artie's Animal Companions tier and up! For less than the price of 2 iced coffees, you'll instantly unlock a backlog of 17 Darkened Tides episodes and counting, along with so much more!

Trevor William Fayle as The DM
Rhi Agnew as Meyz
Kay Devine-Jones as Sabina Vani
Ned Pryce as Claudio Fortuna Rodrigo Montebanc
Campbell O'Hare as Pippa Quintelpass

For hours of bonus content, fan art, secret backstories and behind-the-scenes clips, subscribe to our Patreon or check out our merch at our Etsy store!

Website: https://www.criticalfayledm.com/
TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@criticalfayledm
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/criticalfayledm/
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/criticalfayledm

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Our Summer '26 Hellmouth Hiatus continues! As we prepare for the launch of Hellmouth High in September, we'll be rolling out bonus goodies here on the main podcast feed every single week. This week, we throw it back to our time at PAX Unplugged '23, where Trevor, Ned & Kay alternated running the Goon crew through a different one-shot in a different system each day of the convention. Thank you to our sponsor Modern Artifice for hosting us at their booth! This week, Kay leads the boys through The Mosquito Witch a Pathfinder 2e fantasy adventure!

Modern Artifice: https://modernartifice.com/

For hours of bonus content, fan art, secret backstories and behind-the-scenes clips, subscribe to our Patreon or check out our merch at our Etsy store!

Website: https://www.criticalfayledm.com/
TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@criticalfayledm
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/criticalfayledm/
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/criticalfayledm

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