The Exquisite Lich

(This episode is rated TRUE NEUTRAL for some strong language and intense combat.)

What began as a lovely evening well-earned revelry for four unlikely friends has devolved into clamor and violence--and it's not over yet.

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Title: Something to save

Title: This one is tough

Title: Charlotte

Title: plus

Special Guests: Kacey Smith (The Chimera), Kyle Bruenning (Magic Folk), Showgun (Welcome to the Party), Vin LaBate (The Chimera), and Waffles (Iron Hides).

(This episode is rated TRUE NEUTRAL for some strong language and intense combat.)

Remy Dreamshout is a bard in love. But when he and his friends--two plane-touched sisters and a dark elf with a disturbingly green thumb--head into a rich neighborhood to try and impress his girlfriend's dad at a fancy party, they find that it's not so easy to put your history behind you.

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Title: Balkan Gypsy Party

Title: Opening

Title: What a Time to Want to Die

Special Guests: Kacey Smith (The Chimera), Kyle Bruenning (Magic Folk), Showgun (Welcome to the Party), Vin LaBate (The Chimera), and Waffles (Iron Hides).

(This episode is rated TRUE NEUTRAL for some strong language, a couple instances of intense violence and disturbing imagery, and toilet facts.)

The city of Amaranthine is ancient and immutable, but like every city, it would fall apart without cheap, expendable labor. But when three goblins of the Withermerry clan are sent into the sewers on a routine vermin hunt, what they find is well above their pay grade.

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Title: бабочка

Title: ту пой

Title: 3rd

Title: inamorato Principessa

Special Guests: Chase Greenlee (Another Path), Showgun (Welcome to the Party), Tracy Gibbons (The Broadswords), and Vin LaBate (The Chimera).

Hey, friends. Me again, your humble producer, just popping in with a little note about our rating system. Since every episode has a different cast, the tone and content can vary quite a bit, so we’re going to put a rating right at the top of the show notes for each one. We’ll also include some brief details about why an episode is rated the way it is so you can quickly figure out if something is or isn’t your jam.

Each rating is essentially a D&D alignment. The Lawful-chaotic axis describes the playstyle—how, mmm, rude of off-color the cast can get. A chaotic game has lots of spicy language and bawdy humor throughout. A Lawful game steers clear of all that stuff, and a neutral game will have just a bit sprinkled around here and there.

Instead of good and evil, though, we’re going to use Bright and Grim to describe a story’s actual content. A bright game may feature combat and the traditional level of fantasy violence you might expect from a D&D game, but it’s going to steer clear of intense or graphic violence and disturbing imagery. A neutral game may contain isolated incidences of those things, and a Grim is likely to feature them heavily as part of its tone and theming.

You can expect a Lawful Bright game to be family friendly, a Chaotic Bright game to be lighthearted but potty-mouthed, a Lawful Grim game to be dark and intense, and a Chaotic Grim game to be pretty much anything goes.

And again, each episode will have a brief explanation of its rating if you want a more specific indicator of what to expect, and we’ll have all this written out at exquisitelich.com. We’ll also be tagging every episode on the website with its rating for easy searching.

I think that’s everything I meant to say, so I’m just gonna let you get back to the show. Enjoy!

(This episode is rated NEUTRAL BRIGHT for some light cussing.)

Within the Queen’s Home, burroughs, collectives, territories and neighborhoods often have trade and political disputes, just as any other city or country. They are culturally vibrant, different in trade and tradition, and clash almost daily. Today we find our heroes in Copper’s Bend, is a young district. A recent influx in cash has seen one family rise to power in a fashion unseen in many years. All was going well until the Patriarch died unexpectedly, leaving his daughter as the district’s defacto driver. She is smart, capable, and willing, though others conspire to stop her. She is five days away from her coronation, and someone has stolen the family ritual cloak. She cannot ascend to her family seat without it.

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Title: A Ghra

Title: Non-Place 1 of 64

Title: Welcome to the Machine

Special Guests: Chase Greenlee (Another Path), Renee Rhodes (Fate & the Fablemaidens), Showgun (Welcome to the Party), and Vin LaBate (The Chimera).

Hey, friends! Welcome to The Exquisite Lich, an actual play Dungeons & Dragons anthology podcast where players and DMs from across the community come together to tell short stories in a setting that we’re building as we go! I’m gonna keep this announcement quick so you can get on to the good bits:

Given the complexities of scheduling and producing these stories, we’ve opted to release them as full-length specials more or less as soon as they’re done, rather than try to break them up into weekly bite-sized pieces. They should be popping up in your feed about once a month or so for the time being, with the goal of moving on to a more regular schedule once we’ve worked out the kinks. You can follow us at exquisitelich on twitter for the latest news, or just stay tuned here for any big announcements.

Now let’s get on to the show.