Hello listeners! Welcome to Episode 1, Session 01, Side A of the new series! We’re going to be playing through The Lost Mines of Phandelver, the adventure presented in the Dungeons and Dragons Starter Set. The characters are called upon by a dwarf they met in a tavern to make a deliver… but you’ll hear about that in the podcast.

The cast consists of our normal crew. Alex plays a character named Hal, who is a level 1 Bard when we meet him. Kaetlyn is playing Uitzash, a mysterious level 1 Warlock with a rather dark patron. Kolton decided to play Olo, a level 1 Tortle Barbarian. While Matt was intrigued by the idea of playing a level 1 Grung Wizard. We… have a lot of fun with the characters in this series.

We meet the characters on the road on their way to Phandalin. They weren’t expecting it to be too dangerous. But things rarely go as adventurers plan in D&D.

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Hello listeners! Welcome to the Seventh recording session of our Torchbearer series! This is side B, and today you’ll hear the cast complete their heroic struggle through the dungeon bellow the Inn of the Three Squires! Alex played the role of Jimmithias “Jimmy” Dwindelberger, a Human Magician, Kaetlyn played the role of Aaron Gold, a Human Warrior, Kolton played the role of Horrace San Diego, a Human Cleric, and Matt played the role of Nilo Steelkin, a Dwarf Adventurer, in this series. Colin acted as GM, The Adversity.

The characters finish up their adventure in the inn, get one final check-in with Elsa, resign themselves to the reality of the amount of loot they’ve been able to acquire along the way, and discuss the future of the inn with the Innkeeper before going back to town where they finally level up! We go through the town procedure and have some fun talking about what might come next for these characters and then we conclude the adventure!

Keep your eyes open for the announcement about the new series that we’ll be starting up next week!

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Hello listeners! Welcome to the Seventh recording session of our Torchbearer series! This is side A, and today you’ll hear the penultimate episode of our cast’s heroic struggle through their adventure below the Inn of the Three Squires as first level adventurers. Alex played the role of Jimmithias “Jimmy” Dwindelberger, a Human Magician, Kaetlyn played the role of Aaron Gold, a Human Warrior, Kolton played the role of Horrace San Diego, a Human Cleric, and Matt played the role of Nilo Steelkin, a Dwarf Adventurer, in this series. Colin acted as GM, The Adversity.

Today the group of adventurers continues the struggle against the Kobolds!

However… an old foe arrives near the end of an early conflict in this session and the Kobold Matriarch, Sawback, and her guards are forced to deal with this new threat directly, giving the band a much needed opportunity!

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Hello listeners! Welcome to side B of the sixth recording session of our Torchbearer series!  In this series you’ll hear our cast struggle heroically through their adventure below the Inn of the Three Squires as first level adventurers. Alex played the role of Jimmithias “Jimmy” Dwindelberger, a Human Magician, Kaetlyn played the role of Aaron Gold, a Human Warrior, Kolton played the role of Horrace San Diego, a Human Cleric, and Matt played the role of Nilo Steelkin, a Dwarf Adventurer, in this series. Colin acted as GM, The Adversity.

In this episode the characters deal with a number of Kobold threats including the return of the Inn Keeper’s Captives and the Kobold Matriarch! How will they fare against such impressive foes!? Probably pretty well, right? They’re just Kobolds after all.

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Hello listeners! Welcome to side A of the sixth recording session of our Torchbearer series!  In this series you’ll hear our cast struggle heroically through their adventure below the Inn of the Three Squires as first level adventurers. Alex played the role of Jimmithias “Jimmy” Dwindelberger, a Human Magician, Kaetlyn played the role of Aaron Gold, a Human Warrior, Kolton played the role of Horrace San Diego, a Human Cleric, and Matt played the role of Nilo Steelkin, a Dwarf Adventurer, in this series. Colin acted as GM, The Adversity.

The players make a quick plan about how they want to progress knowing what they found out at the end of last session; that there are kobolds holding some bizarre form of punishment at the end of the tunnel they’re hiding in.

They decide to go in there and show those Kobolds what’s for! So, choosing the tactic that’s worked so far, they run headlong into a Drive Off conflict! You’ll have to listen to see what happens, but I can tell you right now that we eventually move into our very first Kill conflict. Super important moment in the game that we treat rather unceremoniously; but what else is new?

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Hello listeners! Welcome to side B of the fifth recording session of our Torchbearer series!  In this series you’ll hear our cast struggle heroically through their adventure below the Inn of the Three Squires as first level adventurers. Alex played the role of Jimmithias “Jimmy” Dwindelberger, a Human Magician, Kaetlyn played the role of Aaron Gold, a Human Warrior, Kolton played the role of Horrace San Diego, a Human Cleric, and Matt played the role of Nilo Steelkin, a Dwarf Adventurer, in this series. Colin acted as GM, The Adversity.

The heroes sally forth into the dungeon yet again! They discover, very quickly, one of the inns folk; the Inn Keeper in fact! And then promptly choose to alienate him! Hurray!!! Flashback to Episode 1 or 2 where they were told by the little girl Elsa that he’s evil and that he’s intending to cook the human captives for the kobolds in exchange for his own life… Super scummy. Then they make camp. How will this whole situation pan out? What else will they find in the cave? Where is that horrific screaming coming from!?

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Hello listeners! Welcome to side A of the fifth recording session of our Torchbearer series!  In this series you’ll hear our cast struggle heroically through their adventure below the Inn of the Three Squires as first level adventurers. Alex played the role of Jimmithias “Jimmy” Dwindelberger, a Human Magician, Kaetlyn played the role of Aaron Gold, a Human Warrior, Kolton played the role of Horrace San Diego, a Human Cleric, and Matt played the role of Nilo Steelkin, a Dwarf Adventurer, in this series. Colin acted as GM, The Adversity.

The adventurers proceed deeper into the caves while avoiding the spider, meet some kobolds, and make a complete mess of the camp that they find. The players generally are a mess of digression and hilarity, as we have come to expect them to be at this point.

Hello listeners! Welcome to side A of the fourth recording session of our Torchbearer series!  In this series you’ll hear our cast struggle heroically through their adventure below the Inn of the Three Squires as first level adventurers. Alex played the role of Jimmithias “Jimmy” Dwindelberger, a Human Magician, Kaetlyn played the role of Aaron Gold, a Human Warrior, Kolton played the role of Horrace San Diego, a Human Cleric, and Matt played the role of Nilo Steelkin, a Dwarf Adventurer, in this series. Colin acted as GM, The Adversity.

In this episode the characters find a spoopy tunnel filled with spider webs and feel like it’s a bad idea to go by it and also a bad idea to press on without making camp again. So they found a new place to make camp and then played the camp game!

Hello listeners! Welcome to side A of the fourth recording session of our Torchbearer series!  In this series you’ll hear our cast struggle heroically through their adventure below the Inn of the Three Squires as first level adventurers. Alex played the role of Jimmithias “Jimmy” Dwindelberger, a Human Magician, Kaetlyn played the role of Aaron Gold, a Human Warrior, Kolton played the role of Horrace San Diego, a Human Cleric, and Matt played the role of Nilo Steelkin, a Dwarf Adventurer, in this series. Colin acted as GM, The Adversity.

In this episode, we hear as our heroes decide how to tackle making it across that chasm that we introduced a couple episodes back. There’s quite a bit of debate about the best method but they eventually come up with, and then execute, a pretty good plan! Dungeon delvers of old would be proud! *single tear*

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Hello listeners! Welcome to side A of the fourth recording session of our Torchbearer series!  In this series you’ll hear our cast struggle heroically through their adventure below the Inn of the Three Squires as first level adventurers. Alex played the role of Jimmithias “Jimmy” Dwindelberger, a Human Magician, Kaetlyn played the role of Aaron Gold, a Human Warrior, Kolton played the role of Horrace San Diego, a Human Cleric, and Matt played the role of Nilo Steelkin, a Dwarf Adventurer, in this series. Colin acted as GM, The Adversity.

In this episode, we hear the protagonists dilly-dally about fighting the Stone Spider they’ve run into, they engage the conflict mechanics (eventually), and at some point we start up the sick Sack Rhymes again.

Really we’re just here to make jokes about the inventory mechanics with Torchbearer, so in that way, we’re winning.

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