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Mad Dungeon
by Epic Levels
Mad Dungeon is a podcast where D&D hip hop group Epic Levels and a guest create a system-neutral, playable one-page adventure map using improv, comedy, and lifetimes wasted on roleplaying games
Episodes
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MD 421 - Vapenstien w/ Banana Chan
Get your lungs and ears ready for this week’s episode! Banana Chan catches us up on their latest work, including Knockoff, a solo journaling game where players cut and paste fabric patterns to create a dress; and The Darkness at the Brink of Ohio, a solo horror journaling game with its own...
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MD 420 - Count VVaitom gives you VVhat you VVant w/ Ben Mazz
This week, we sit down with Ben Mazz, creator of Don’t Tell Mom & Dad, the tabletop horror RPG where you play kids, use kid logic, earn Cool Points, and hopefully make it home before curfew. Ben is also the musician behind the game’s 11-song Audio Companion, co-creator of the Sewer Rats zine, and…
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MD 419 - A Booster Pack of Heroes w/ Matt Forbeck
This week, we’re cracking open a Booster Pack of Heroes with Matt Forbeck! Matt is the designer behind the Marvel Multiverse Role-Playing Game, including the Avengers Expansion, with more Marvel adventures on the way. His career also stretches across tabletop games, novels, comics, and video...
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MD 418 - Fast Food Mascots from Outer Space w/ Humberto Tramujas
This week, we sit down with Humberto Tramujas for a great conversation and thankfully nobody goes hungry. We take a look at Humberto’s OldMoon, an old-school RPG of extraterrestrial medieval adventure, set against the strange and richly detailed world of the Moon of Exyon. Follow Humberto on...
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MD 416 w/ Donn Stroud
This week, Donn Stroud joins us to talk about his work on Ruination Pilgrimage, Lesser Key to the Celestial Legion, The Isle of the Plangent Mage, and several standout Mothership titles, including Unconfirmed Contact Reports, A Pound of Flesh, and Dead Planet. We also dive into Exalted Funeral’s...
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MD 415 The Pomander Configuration w/ Stu Horvath
This week, our guest is Stu Horvath, creator of Vintage RPG and author of Monsters, Aliens, and Holes in the Ground: A Guide to Tabletop Roleplaying Games from D&D to Mothership. Stu is also part of Unwinnable and co-hosts Games People Play with Sara and Stu on WFMU. A contributor to Wired and...
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MD 414 The Wild Mosh w/ Jeff Richard (Chaosium, Runequest /Glorantha)
This week, our guest is Jeff Richard, now also known as The Bison Investigator. Jeff joined us to discuss some major anniversaries for Chaosium and Call of Cthulhu. We also talked about the RuneQuest Guide to Glorantha, HeroQuest Glorantha, and RuneQuest: Roleplaying in Glorantha... so basically,...
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MD 413 = A Bouquet of Snakes w/ Chrys Sellers (Defy the Gods, Racoon Sky Pirates, Prison of the Mad Gods)
This weeks guest is Chrys Sellers of Hectic Electron. We discuss with them the Defy the Gods RPG Kickstarter, Tabletop Gaymers, Racoon Sky Pirates, and Prison of the Mad Gods. Follow Chrys: Bluesky, Tumbler, and Instagram Beware getting a Bouquet as a gift, IT MIGHT BE FULL OF SNAKES! Tiger...
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MD 412 - The Fluffy Detective w/ Brigitte Winter (Scryptid Games, Assemblage, The Goodest Girls, Psychic Trash Detectives)
This week’s guest is Brigitte Winter of Scryptid Games. We talk Assemblage, GM-less, gamescience-inspired eco-fantasy TTRPG, Against the Gloom and The Goodest Girls, her sequel to Psychic Trash Detectives. Crowdfunding now is Cryptids: Games, Stories, & Uncanny Ephemera. Follow Brigitte: website…
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MD 411 - The Candleman w/ Joey Royale (Get Haunted Industries, Weird Heroes of Public Access (WHPA), Ninja City)
This week’s guest is Joey Royale of Get Haunted Industries. We talk Weird Heroes of Public Access (WHPA), Ooze Nun for Mothership (with art from Tiger Wizard), Ninja City and his new adventure Resort to Violence, Sewer Rats (TTRPG collective) and the Joey Royale’s Pizza Party, and Joey and Tiger...
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MD 410 - Greezy G w/ John “Hambone” McGuire (321 RPG, Vintage RPG podcast)
This week’s guest is John “Hambone” McGuire of 321 RPG and the Vintage RPG podcast. Hambone teaches us to make the perfect smashburger. We talk 321 RPG scenarios Hotel Exorcist and the upcoming Death by Dino (of which Tiger Wizard did some art) from the Children of UMA universe. We dip into Days…
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MD 408 - Messy Mass of Mice (M³) w/ Andre Novoa (Games Omnivorous, Mausritter Month, The Job)
This week’s guest is Andre Novoa of Games Omnivorous. We talk about Mausritter Month (Nov. 2025), a group-collab project featuring an all-new setting for Mausritter JUNK CITY and new works from 16 of Mausritter's community of third-party creators, including our own Tiger Wizard. We discuss THE…
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MD 408 - Terra Cotta Dream Thieves w/ Brad Kerr (Between Two Cairns, Necrotic Gnome, The Dream Shrine)
This week’s guest is Brad Kerr, writer, editor, game designer and co-host of the podcast Between Two Cairns. We talk about his work with Necrotic Gnome (Old-School Essentials Starter Set & Old-School Essentials Demonic Grimoire, Carcass Crawler), The Dream Shrine, Hideous Daylight, Temple of 1000...
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MD 407 - Scissor Pit w/ Brian Shutter (Neon Lords of the Toxic Wastes, 1-900-Phantazy, Zombie Braineaters)
This week’s guest is Brian Shutter. We talk about Neon Lords of the Toxic Wastes upcoming miniatures skirmish game called Violence, Action, Cash and Prizes, and new supplement Deities and Demi-Bros, 1-900-Phantazy, Zombie Braineaters, Roller Brawl, Battle Binders, and announces Battle Binder…
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MD 406 - GART: Goblin Art Collective w/ CJ Somavia (GLAIVE, Grand Rituals, Hothead Collective)
This week’s guest is CJ Somavia. We talk about Hothead Collective (which is pretty much CJ and whoever he’s working with), Grand Rituals (a system agnostic toolset to introduce big magical rituals into your fantasy TTRPG), and GLAIVE (a quarterly glossy magazine dedicated to gaming and its...
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MD 405 - H.O.M.E.: Sly Motherships w/ Jarrett Crader (Space Penguin Ink)
This week’s guest is Jarrett Crader of Space Penguin Ink, who’s on their 68th release! We talk Forbidden Psalms, Liminal Horror RPG, the Cairn 2E box set, The Ghosts of Zoazanna Mountain, Survivors of the Core Wars: an NPC deck for Mothership RPG, and Seas of Sand by Sam Sorensen Follow Jarrett...
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MD 404 - Championship Belt of the Verdant Wastes w/ W.F. Smith (Prismatic Wasteland, Prismatic Wisdom, Barkeep on the Borderlands)
This week’s guest is W.F. Smith of Prismatic Wastland. We talk about his new physical book Prismatic Wisdom & Barkeep on the Borderlands. We discuss his history with B2: Keep on the Borderlands (how Barkeep is a pseudo-sequel), pub crawls in Athens, GA, and how he’s a “pun-first” writer. We…
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MD 403 - BeakMaster w/ Rhodrick Magsino (ARKYVR, OMENDROME, Alewood Games)
This week’s guest is Rhodrick Magsino, owner and main designer of Alewood Games. We talk about the Baltimore indie TTRPG scene and how filmmaking and music production influence his game design. We dig into his games: Remember Frankie ,Traysikel: Ride or Die!, ARKYVR, OMENDROME, The Revolution…
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MD 402 - Pizza Queen w/ Andrew Kolb (Wonderland, Oz & Neverland Role-Playing Settings)
This week’s guest is Andrew Kolb. We talk about his latest Role-Playing Setting of Wonderland (dungeon crawl) where he pulls from the surreal and silly collage art of people like Terry Gilliam. We talk about how all the Lewis Carroll characters are agro with Alice, and making their stat blocks…
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MD 401 Toe-Based Space Wizards w/ Zach Cowan (aka Bat Alchemist, producer of the Mad Dungeon podcast)
Our guest this week is our Mad Dungeon producer, the Bat Alchemist himself, Zach Cowan, a location sound recordist and video producer located in Atlanta. We talk about what season four is all about: We’re making a zine of TTRPG content to use in your home games with each of our guests…
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MD 312 Season Finale - Goblin Kings and Popstars Sing - Rise of the Vat Spawn (actual play)
Season Finale - Goblin Kings and Popstars Sing Bat Alchemist uses gym-kata to make his way through the swarm of goblins dance-fighting to Enrique Iglesias. He moves under the bleachers and sees bad-kid goblins smoking cigarettes and making out. He melts them with an acid potion. Warlock Rock hits…
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SQ 314 - Erik & Heidi Gygax Garland (GAXLAND, Egg Con) and Matt Forbeck (Marvel Multiverse RPG, Shotguns & Sorcery, Warhammer 40k, TSR)
Our guests this week are Erik & Heidi Gygax Garland (GAXLAND, Egg Con) and Matt Forbeck (Marvel Multiverse RPG, Shotguns & Sorcery, Warhammer 40k, Minecraft) as we continue our Gary Con 2024 series of 50 years of Dungeons and Dragons interviews. We talk with Erik & Heidi about getting married…
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MD 311 Enrique Iglesias Murder Dance Party - Rise of the Vat Spawn (actual play)
The Vat Spawn watch the Goblin King polymorph the missing Ariana from a beautiful pop star into a grotesque goblin. A hundred goblins cheer him on as the transformation occurs. “Goblins is people?” Dragon Warrior queried. Bat Alchemist lights a joint from the demon dog’s fire breath to regain his...
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SQ 313 - Stephen Radney-MacFarland (Delve RPG, D&D, Pathfinder)
Our guest this week is Stephen Radney-MacFarland as we continue our Gary Con 2024 series of 50 years of Dungeons and Dragons interviews. We talk about Delve RPG, his passion-project meditation on d20 fantasy games. How he doesn’t agree with 5E’s advantage/disadvantage rules. Growing up in San...
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MD 310 Demon Dog & A Monarch Menace – Rise of the Vat Spawn
The Vat Spawn take out the final elite goblins. We meet Lotto, a 10-foot demon dog. Bat Alchemist sucks venom out of Warlock Roc. They explore further into the goblin museum, finding horrific paintings of former goblin kings, before discovering the current Goblin King’s chambers. ANNOUNCEMENTS...
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SQ 312 - David “Zeb” Cook (TSR, D&D, AD&D, Conan Role-Playing Game)
Our guest this week is David “Zeb” Cook as we continue our Gary Con 2024 series of 50 years of Dungeons and Dragons interviews. We talk about his involvement in 49 of the 50 years of D&D’s existence and how satisfying it’s been for him to see his work impacting generations of people. We discuss…
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MD 309 Balls: Crystal, Disco & Fire - Rise of the Vat Spawn
309 Balls: Crystal, Disco & Fire - Rise of the Vat Spawn The Vat Spawn finish their fight with elite business goblins that includes disco floors, Weekend-at-Bernie’s-ing a dead goblin to find true love in secret nap spots, and lots of Nitar’s Fireballs were a’flyin’. A crystal ball houses a…
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311 Side Quest - John “Hambone” McGuire (321 Action, Braineaters!, Vintage RPG podcast)
Our guest this week is John “Hambone” McGuire as we continue our Gary Con 2024 series of 50 years of D&D interviews. We talk about his 321 Action core book and the adventures he’s written to go along with it, including upcoming Hotel Exorcist, Braineaters! that he’s working on with Brian Shutter...
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MD 308 Cursed Swords & Velvet Cords - Rise of the Vat Spawn
The Vat Spawn follow beefy elite goblins into a room of swords with a goblin museum curators arguing about presentation. The head curator laughs as Dragon Warrior touches a cursed codeine razor and is weakened with magical addiction. A big ole fight breaks out with Tiger Wizard trip attacks and a...
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310 Side Quest - Banana Chan (Forgery, Jiangshi, Revenant Society, Chucky, The Darkness At The Brink Of Ohio)
Our guest this week is Banana Chan as we continue our Gary Con 2024 series of 50 years of Dungeons and Dragons interviews. We discuss her upcoming The Darkness At The Brink Of Ohio, a solo journaling game with a soundtrack with a full cast. You’re one of three late shift workers listening to the...
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MD 307 Goblin Guards & Credit Cards - Rise of the Vat Spawn (actual play)
307 Goblin Guards & Credit Cards - Rise of the Vat Spawn The Vat Spawn peruse the lobby of the goblin museum when the alarm button gets pushed after Tiger Wizard is caught trying to steal trillmatic rings. A negotiation starts up on either side of a force field with a goblin on stilts named Snax....
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309 Side Quest - Elisa Teague (Marvel, The Crooked Moon, Surviving Strange Hollow, Gloomhaven RPG)
Our guest this week is Elisa Teague as we continue our Gary Con 2024 series of 50 years of Dungeons and Dragons interviews. We discuss her history with the game, including a 13-year D&D campaign! We discuss her work with Founders and Legends, The Crooked Moon: Folk Horror in 5E by Legends of...
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MD 306 Ducats & Deposits - Rise of the Vat Spawn (actual play)
The Vat Spawn leave the colosseum of mutilation and head to Goblintown. There they infiltrate a secret epicenter of commerce in Def Jamisus called The Goblin Museum. Behind security doors, trades and saves are happening. Tiger Wizard, Bat Alchemist, and Warlock Roc make cash money deposits with…
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308 Side Quest - Luke Stratton (Pirate Borg, Limithron, Free League)
This week our guest is Luke Stratton, creator of Pirate Borg and we talk about his history with D&D and roleplaying, getting into the OSR and MÖRK BORG, a birthday surprise involving the film The Game, and how he assembled his pirate crew to make the game a success. Follow Luke, Limithron &…
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MD 305 Mutilations & Standing Ovations - Rise of the Vat Spawn (actual play)
MD 305 Mutilations & Standing Ovations This week the Vat Spawn, dressed as Def Jamisus Garys (that’s the police), have infiltrated the colosseum just in time to view the public mutilation of ten people, who were then dropped to the Necropolis below. The cops, who’s clothes they stole, found the…
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The Mad Dungeon Podcast Ennie submision
This is an abbreviated version of our episode last summer with Joey Royale. Be sure to check out the map on our website.
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307 Side Quest - Sarah Moore (GenConTV, Formerly Feral Games, World of Chaldea)
This week our guest is Sarah Moore, host of Sarah's Table on GenConTV where she spotlights RPGs created by indie designers and small publishers. She's the co-designer of The Crowned, an RPG by Formerly Feral Games, where you play a god of a small slice of reality. Sarah is also the production...
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SQ 306 Stefan Pokorny (Dwarven Forge, The Dwarvenaut, Starforged)
This week Stefan Pokorny of Dwarven Forge is our guest from our Gary Con 2024 series focusing on the question, “What has 50 years of Dungeons & Dragons meant to you?” We discuss his childhood in NYC and growing up with D&D, his journey from artists to sculptor of the most popular modular terrain...
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MD 304 AGAB: All Garys Are Bastards - Rise of the Vat Spawn (actual play)
This week the Vat Spawn are at the Rock Ride station platform with The Coroner. They’re stopped while trying to pass through a DJPD checkpoint. The fuzz find a joint on Warlock Roc and they’re detained. They unsuccessfully attempt to bribe the officers, and the cops call in backup. Tiger Wizard...
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SQ 305 Brigitte Winter (Scryptid Games, Against the Gloom, Psychic Trash Detectives)
Our guest this week is Brigitte Winter of Scryptid Games. Brigitte (she/her) is a writer, photographer, and game designer based in Maryland. She consumes and creates stories and games that are queer, feminist, intimate, and deliciously weird. We talked about Scryptid Games, Psychic Trash...
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MD 303 City Streets & Spaghetti Treats - Rise of the Vat Spawn (actual play)
This week our heroes meet The Coroner in the basement of his mortuary. We learn that the dead bodies of Def Jamisus city are sent down chutes to the Necropolis below. The Marshal of Mummies explains that astral markers are needed to re-up their magical powers before leaving them with The Coroner…
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SQ 304 Mystic Punks RPG w/ Anthony Meloro and Jay Domingo
This week we talk with Anthony Meloro and Jay Domingo about their kickstarter for the Mystic Punks TTRPG, OUT TODAY exclusively through Exalted Funeral. https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/exaltedfuneral/mystic-punks-table-top-roleplaying-game We talk about all the fun things that come with the...
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MD 302 Condos & Conspiracies - Rise of the Vat Spawn (actual play)
This week, the Vat Spawn chat about crime and punishment before smoking a joint to heal their wounds. Dr. Dre-colich shows the vat spawn to their very specific apartments and they get geared up for their intense four-part mission. First, infiltrate a goblin enclave to find CleRick Rubin's missing...
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SQ 303 Luke Gygax (Gary Con, Founders & Legends, Gaxx Worx)
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 –…
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MD 301 The Necropolis - Rise of the Vat Spawn (actual play)
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...
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SQ 302 Justin Sirois (GameFace Con, Severed Books & Toys)
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....
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MD 300 Session Zero - Rise of the Vat Spawn (actual play)
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…
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SQ 301 Mystic Punks RPG w/ Anthony Meloro and Jay Domingo
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:...
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MD 241 Season Two #Dungeon23 Finale (Part 2) w/ Marc Miller, Shanna Germain, Chris Lindsay, Sean K. Reynolds
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...
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Mad Dungeon is a podcast where D&D hip hop group Epic Levels and a guest create a system-neutral, playable one-page adventure map using improv, comedy, and lifetimes wasted on roleplaying games
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