Twenty Sides: A DnD Podcast
by Twenty Sides
Most actual play podcasts ask for four hours. We'll take thirty minutes. Twenty Sides is a fast-paced, story-driven actual play Dungeons & Dragons podcast. No table talk, no rules lookups, no housekeeping — every episode is cut tight and ends somewhere you don't want it to. Expect buried history, bad decisions, and cliffhangers nobody at the table planned. Every campaign is a complete story with a real ending, and each one stands on its own. So you don't have to start at the beginning of anything — pick a campaign, start at its Episode 1, and you'll be caught up inside a weekend. Clean language throughout, so it works in the car, at work, or with the kids in the back. New episodes every Monday.
Episodes
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C3 - Ep45: Hand Over Hand
Miller has one job: keep the mapmakers busy out in the snow. Annabel has to find one map in a tent full of them. Twenty Sides, a D&D actual play podcast. Campaign 3, Crownfall, Episode 45. To fix the cracked Focusing Prism, the party needs a map of the forest to the northwest, and every map at…
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C3 - Ep44: The Crack In The Prism
They tied the tent shut from the inside. She was already in there. Twenty Sides is a fast-paced, story-driven actual play Dungeons & Dragons podcast. This is Campaign 3: Crownfall, Episode 44. The prism works exactly the way Zalkum said it would, right up until he holds it to the light and tells...
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C3 - Ep43: Three Days Passed
Something on the road opens its mouth and a human voice comes out. It is not its voice. Twenty Sides is a fast-paced, story-driven actual play Dungeons & Dragons podcast. This is Campaign 3: Crownfall, Episode 43. Two days of walking back toward the outpost with the prism, and on the second night...
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C3: Ep42 - He Knew And Said Nothing
The prism is finally free. That is when the ceiling gives up. Twenty Sides is a fast-paced, story-driven actual play Dungeons & Dragons podcast. This is Campaign 3: Crownfall, Episode 42. Annabel gets the prism off its arms with a set of thieves' tools while a reptilian head the size of a table...
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C3 - Ep41: Something Upstairs
Two figures in full plate turn to face the party. There is nothing inside the helmets. Twenty Sides is a fast-paced, story-driven actual play Dungeons & Dragons podcast. This is Campaign 3: Crownfall, Episode 41. Another floor up in the sunken observatory is a room full of broken windows, and...
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C3 - Ep40: The Sunken Observatory
There is one telescope left in the ruin that still works. Looking through it turns out to be a mistake. Twenty Sides is a fast-paced, story-driven actual play Dungeons & Dragons podcast. This is Campaign 3: Crownfall, Episode 40. They come out of the portal into ground they have never seen, black...
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C3 - Ep39: A Secret They Must Keep
A bat flies into the tent, looks around, and flies back out. Nobody at the table thinks it was a bat. Twenty Sides is a fast-paced, story-driven actual play Dungeons & Dragons podcast. This is Campaign 3: Crownfall, Episode 39. This picks up the same night. Zalkum leaves them with one…
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C3 - Ep38: A Devil Hid His Daughter
They were inside the portal for an afternoon. Everyone at the outpost says they were gone four days. Twenty Sides is a fast-paced, story-driven actual play Dungeons & Dragons podcast. This is Campaign 3: Crownfall, Episode 38. No combat this week. The party gets back through the gate with…
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C3 - Ep37: They Left Him In There
Three of them make it through the portal. One of them doesn't, and nobody notices until it's too late. The chapel fight ends here, and it ends strangely. The party has worked out the rule by now: every spirit they destroy adds another piece to the portal forming against the back wall, so the way...
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C3 - Ep36: What Their Deaths Are Building
The figures in the pews don't look hostile. They also don't look like they're coming to say hello. Twenty Sides is a fast-paced, story-driven actual play Dungeons & Dragons podcast. This is Campaign 3: Crownfall, Episode 36. Episode 35 ended on initiative being rolled in a dark chapel, before...
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C3 - Ep35: The Hymn of Vigil and Binding
A thousand-year-old hymn finally tells the party what this place was really built for — and why the people who kept the watch never left. Twenty Sides is a fast-paced, story-driven actual play Dungeons & Dragons podcast. This is Campaign 3: Crownfall, Episode 35. The skeleton is down. Miller's…
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C3 - Ep34: The Skeletons Weren’t Dead
The fortress has given Annabel, Quinn, Miller, and Thelandor powerful new weapons—but every discovery comes with a price. After defeating the drowned soldiers and searching the ruined courtyard, the party studies a mysterious military map showing a large force moving toward the darkness at the...
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C3 - Ep33: The Map of the Dead
The drowned soldiers are finally dead—but the fortress ahead may hold something even worse. Annabel, Quinn, Miller, and Thelandor continue their brutal first battle beyond the portal, surrounded by undead soldiers capable of draining away their maximum health. Already weakened by the creatures’...
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C3 - Ep32: The Drowned Soldiers Rise
The party has crossed the portal—and the new world immediately tries to kill them. Annabel, Quinn, Miller, and Thelandor barely have time to take in the strange landscape before drowned soldiers rise from the murky ground around them. Rusted blades swing, axes strike from behind, and every enemy...
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C3 - Ep31: The King in Chains
The portal is closer than ever. After a restless night filled with questions, Annabel, Quinn, Miller, and Thelandor continue their search for answers before stepping into the unknown. With Bram’s terrifying transformation still fresh in their minds and the mystery of Neithera hanging over them,...
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C3 - Ep30: The Portal Has Spoken
The portal has claimed its first victim. After Bram Deepwood murders a guard and vanishes through the portal, the outpost is thrown into chaos. Alarm bells ring through the night, soldiers scramble for answers, and the leadership of the outpost is left trying to contain a situation that may…
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C3 - Ep29: Bram Makes His Move
The portal is no longer whispering. It’s speaking. As night falls over the outpost, Annabel, Quinn, Miller, and Thelandor keep watch over the mysterious gateway that has dominated every conversation since their return from Norvale. Rumors swirl throughout camp. Bram Deepwood remains as suspicious...
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C3 - Ep28: The Portal Calls
The adventure back from Norvale may be over—but something far stranger is waiting at the outpost. After returning with survivors and delivering their report to Brother Harvick, Annabel, Quinn, Miller, and Thelandor find themselves facing a growing problem. The mysterious Bram Deepwood has made no...
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C3 - Ep27: The Screams in the Woods
Sleep doesn’t last long in Crownfall. As the party continues their cautious journey back toward the outpost, Annabel hears something chilling during her watch—a distant scream echoing through the darkness of the forest. Not once, but twice. 🌙🌲 The sound is wrong. Muffled. Painful. Desperate....
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C3 - Ep26: A Smirk In The Dark
The unease around Bram Deepwood finally begins to crack open. After another tense night in the wilderness, Annabel, Quinn, Miller, and Thelandor awaken with growing suspicions about the mysterious traveler following them. Miller remembers almost nothing from his late-night conversation with...
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C3 - Ep25: The Man From Nowhere
The wilds aren’t empty anymore. After realizing they were being followed through the forests outside Norvale, Annabel, Quinn, Miller, and Thelandor finally confront the mysterious humanoid tracking their movements. The stranger calls himself Bram Deepwood—a traveler claiming he only wanted safety...
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C3 - Ep24: The Shadow Behind Them
Norvale is behind them—but something is still following. After uncovering the truth beneath the chapel crypt and surviving another terrifying night in the ruined town, Annabel, Quinn, Miller, and Thelandor begin the long journey back toward the outpost. The pale blue ash covering the graveyard...
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C3 - Ep23: Ashes Over Norvale
The streets of Norvale fall silent—but the danger hasn’t passed. After surviving a brutal battle against gnolls and a deadly roc, Annabel, Quinn, Miller, and Thelandor finally reach the chapel at the center of town. The dead have been hidden, distractions have been set, and for the first time in...
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C3 - Ep22: Hold The Line
The battle for Norvale spirals into chaos. What began as a stealth mission through the ruined town has exploded into a desperate fight for survival. Gnolls swarm the streets, magic tears through the battlefield, and now a terrifying new threat has joined the combat—a massive roc descending into…
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C3 - Ep21: The Staff, the Prism, & the Threat
The plan was to move quietly. After discovering survivors hidden beneath Norvale and learning of more trapped beneath the chapel crypt, Annabel, Quinn, Miller, and Thelandor attempt to slip through the ruined town unseen. Familiar ground now feels hostile—every street a risk, every shadow hiding...
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C3 - Ep20: What’s Left of Norvale
The fighting stops—but the silence is worse. After surviving another brutal night in the wilds, Annabel, Quinn, Miller, and Thelandor press forward toward Norvale once more. Their destination is clear: a root cellar in the western fields where survivors were said to be hiding. 🌾❄️ But something…
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C3 - Ep19: A Fight in the Firelight
The night fight turns brutal. What began as a surprise attack in the darkness spirals into chaos as the gnolls press their advantage. In the heat of battle, Annabel is grappled and thrown into the campfire—flames licking at her as the pack closes in. 🔥🐺 There’s no time to think. No space to...
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C3 - Ep18: Ambushed in the Night
There is no safety outside the walls. After rescuing survivors and following rumors of more hidden west of Norvale, Annabel, Quinn, Miller, and Thelandor press deeper into the wilderness. A lead points them toward a root cellar where more survivors may be hiding—but reaching it means pushing...
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C3 - Ep17: No One Left Behind
The battle is over—but the mission isn’t. After cutting down a gnoll pack and rescuing prisoners from the cave, Annabel, Quinn, Miller, and Thelandor return to the outpost with a fragile sense of victory. Survivors have been saved. The threat has been pushed back—at least for now. But as morning...
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C3 - Ep16: There's Blood in the Gnoll Cave
The cave erupts into violence. After tracking a mysterious black ram through the frozen wilderness, Annabel, Quinn, Miller, and Thelandor discover a horrifying truth hidden beneath the mountain—a gnoll den littered with corpses and prisoners barely clinging to life. The moment they step inside…
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C3 - Ep15: The Ram’s Warning
A sign in the wilderness leads the party straight into danger. While searching the frozen lands outside the outpost for survivors from Norvale, Thelandor spots something strange—a jet black ram watching from the distance. To him, it feels like more than coincidence. It feels like a sign from his...
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C3 - Ep14: The Choice Before the Portal
A safe night inside the outpost quickly turns into something much bigger. After their meeting with the leadership council, Annabel, Quinn, Miller, and Thelandor settle into the outpost to plan their next move. With survivors from Norvale still potentially wandering the frozen wilderness, the…
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C3 - Ep13: A Choice That Shapes the Realm
Safety brings questions—and answers bring heavier choices. Settled inside the outpost, the party returns to the chapel to uncover the truth behind the cursed blade. With Saint’s Glass in hand, the priests confirm what everyone feared: the sword was not merely enchanted by followers of…
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C3 - Ep12: The Outpost at Last
The fighting fades—but the truth finally begins to surface. In the aftermath of the forest ambush, Quinn stabilizes the wounded while Miller refuses to let go of his sister, Amelia. Shaken but alive, she tells them what hunted her through the woods: cultists shouting the name of Naku Rog—the god…
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C3 - Ep11: Blood on the Forest Floor
The road to the outpost doesn’t stay quiet for long. As the party breaks camp and pushes through the frozen woods, the echoes of Norvale still linger—howls in the distance, memories that refuse to fade. Hours into their journey, screaming cuts through the trees, pulling them off the road and...
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C3 - Ep10: Saint's Glass & Firelight
The chapel doors slam open—and the fire answers back. Inside the ruined sanctuary, rain pours through the shattered roof, moss slicks the floor, and the dead stand waiting. A towering skeleton crowned in flame looms at the altar, another undead crouches behind broken pews, and the fight erupts in...
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C3 - Ep9: Battle In The Ruined Chapel
The dead aren’t finished with them yet. At the edge of the ruined chapel, steel finally meets bone. Ghouls charge from the darkness, skeletons scatter across the grounds, and the party is forced into a brutal, chaotic fight where every second matters. Stakes fly. Blades bite. Eldritch energy…
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C3 - Ep8: The Chapel Still Breathes
The rain hasn’t finished falling—and neither has the danger. Taking shelter from the storm, the party encounters a small group of survivors escorting a badly wounded outpost guard. Undead roam nearby, the night closes in fast, and one truth becomes clear: if help is coming, it won’t be in time....
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C3 - Ep7: Dreams The Gods Send
The fighting stops—but the consequences don’t. In the shadow of the watchtower, the party finally breathes. The gray dwarves are questioned, the goblin is freed, and for the first time since Norvale fell, no one chooses blood when mercy will do. ⚖️🌲 As answers slowly surface, a clearer picture...
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C3 - Ep6: A Choice In The Open Road
The road south refuses to stay quiet. At the crossroads watchtower, steel finally answers suspicion. Gray dwarves emerge from the shadows—dragging a bound goblin behind them—and the party doesn’t hesitate. What begins as a rescue quickly turns into chaos as weapons clash, spells flare, and the...
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C3 - Ep5: Ashes in Daylight
Dawn breaks—but it brings no relief. After surviving the night, the party turns back toward Norvale, desperate for answers and clinging to hope that someone escaped. What they find instead is a warning etched into the road itself: human heads mounted on pikes, silhouetted by the rising sun. 🩸🌅...
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C3 - Ep4: No Time to Mourn
The fight doesn’t stop when the last gnoll falls. In the clearing outside Norvale, rage finally breaks loose. Steel crashes. Spells burn. And when the dust settles, the party makes a choice they never thought they’d have to—burn the house behind them and disappear into the woods. 🔥🌲 With…
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C3 - Ep3: No Turning Back
The town is falling behind them. And the fight isn’t done yet. Separated in the chaos, the party races through the woods toward their last fallback—only to find danger waiting in every shadow. Miller barely escapes his home as gnolls batter at the door. Quinn and Thelenor are forced into brutal...
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C3 - Ep2: The Wall Will Not Hold
The bells are still ringing. The town is already burning. As Norvale scrambles to defend itself, the party’s emergency plan begins to unravel. The streets are chaos—people fleeing, weapons clashing, and the distant thunder of an approaching gnoll force growing louder by the second. 🐺⚔️ Quinn and...
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C3 - Ep1: Crownfall Begins: The Howls Beyond Norvale
Two years after the fall of the Rose Citadel, the world has not healed. In the quiet farming town of Norvale, life clings stubbornly to routine—🌾 frozen fields, 🔨 dim forges, and unfinished walls meant to keep the darkness out. But rumors spread faster than hope. Caravans vanish. Gnoll patrols...
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C3 - Ep0.1: Crownfall - A Dystopian Realm: The Lore That Shapes Crownfall
Step into the ashes of a fallen world in this Lore Episode for Campaign 3: Crownfall, narrated by Matt, your Dungeon Master. Before the heroes of this campaign ever take their first steps, this episode unveils the catastrophic events that transformed the realm of Avarinth into a fractured…
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C3 - Ep0: Crownfall - Session Zero
Welcome to Campaign 3: Crownfall — and to Episode 0: Session Zero, where the foundation of our next epic story is forged. In this special kickoff episode, join Matt the Dungeon Master along with Bobby, Jess, Tyler, and Phillip as they gather around the table to shape their new characters, explore...
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C2 - 52: Behind The Curtains - Campaign 2 Recap
Fifty-one episodes. Four adventurers. Countless battles. And one unforgettable ending. In this special recap and reflection episode, Dungeon Master Matt takes listeners behind the screen of Campaign Two: The Nexus—breaking down the moments, decisions, and dice rolls that led to the shocking fall…
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C2 - Ep51: Total Party, What?
The Crossroads burns. The air fills with ash. And the world of Twenty Sides: The Nexus changes forever. After Holden’s devastating fall last episode, Dail, Lucia, and Jace arrive too late to save him—and what follows is one of the most heartbreaking moments in Twenty Sides history. Nash commands...
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C2 - Ep50: Devoured By Darkness
Fifty episodes. Fifty battles. And now, one devastating loss. The caravan’s path to Silverport has led to the smoking ruins of the Crossroads—a battlefield of ash, blood, and burning faith. As Holden scouted ahead, he came face to face with Nash and a mob of gnolls and cultists. What began as...
About this show
Most actual play podcasts ask for four hours. We'll take thirty minutes. Twenty Sides is a fast-paced, story-driven actual play Dungeons & Dragons podcast. No table talk, no rules lookups, no housekeeping — every episode is cut tight and ends somewhere you don't want it to. Expect buried history, bad decisions, and cliffhangers nobody at the table planned.
Every campaign is a complete story with a real ending, and each one stands on its own. So you don't have to start at the beginning of anything — pick a campaign, start at its Episode 1, and you'll be caught up inside a weekend.
Clean language throughout, so it works in the car, at work, or with the kids in the back.
New episodes every Monday.
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