Twenty Sides: A DnD Podcast

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 hanging in the middle of it on four metal arms is a prism catching light from every angle. One of the armored things is up a ladder working on the arms when the party walks in. Both of them draw. What follows is a fight the party is winning, except the prism itself keeps lighting up and firing on everyone not behind cover, and they want it off those arms in one piece.
Then something starts moving around on the floor above them. Then it stops moving. Nobody in this room, including the thing in the armor, is prepared for what comes through the ceiling next.
New here? Crownfall is a self-contained D&D 5e campaign. Start at Episode 1 and you are caught up in a weekend. Episodes run about 30 minutes, tightly cut, no table admin.
0:00 Previously on Twenty Sides
0:59 Episode 41 begins
31:40 Outro
Atmospheric background tracks by Tabletop Audio ➡️ https://tabletopaudio.com
If Crownfall is landing for you, subscribe and leave a review. It's the single biggest thing that helps new adventurers find the table.
Twenty Sides is an actual play D&D podcast for anyone who likes their Dungeons and Dragons campaigns tight, character-driven and low on housekeeping. Campaign 3: Crownfall follows Quinn, Miller, Annabel and Thelandor across Averynth, in the world of Eclura. New episodes every week.
Want more Twenty Sides? Check the links below.
Patreon | www.patreon.com/twentysides
Instagram | https://www.instagram.com/twentysidespod/
YouTube | https://youtube.com/@twentysidespodcast
Discord | https://discord.gg/74kucBWZFh

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 earth and burnt grass, two hundred feet from an observatory that has sunk into the ground. Something large has been climbing in and out through the torn roof, and something else has dug its own way down to the original doors. The party takes the doors. Inside, under the rubble of a collapsed hall, two things are purring in the dark, and when Quinn throws a lit stone to find out what they are, what comes out to grab it is not a paw.
Upstairs, five observation stations, three of them intact and only one still in working order. It takes two tries to get a picture. The first person to look through it sees someone they recognize standing out in the shroud, which would be fine except that she is also standing right here in the room. Then somebody else takes a turn.
New here? Crownfall is a self-contained D&D 5e campaign. Start at Episode 1 and you are caught up in a weekend. Episodes run about 30 minutes, tightly cut, no table admin.
0:00 Previously on Twenty Sides
0:44 Episode 40 begins
31:16 Outro
Atmospheric background tracks by Tabletop Audio ➡️ https://tabletopaudio.com
If Crownfall is landing for you, subscribe and leave a review. It's the single biggest thing that helps new adventurers find the table.
Twenty Sides is an actual play D&D podcast for anyone who likes their Dungeons and Dragons campaigns tight, character-driven and low on housekeeping. Campaign 3: Crownfall follows Quinn, Miller, Annabel and Thelandor across Averynth, in the world of Eclura. New episodes every week.
Want more Twenty Sides? Check the links below.
Patreon | www.patreon.com/twentysides
Instagram | https://www.instagram.com/twentysidespod/
YouTube | https://youtube.com/@twentysidespodcast
Discord | https://discord.gg/74kucBWZFh

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 instruction, tell no one, and a reason to take it seriously that has nothing to do with devils and everything to do with who is running the outpost. Then the party sits in the dark and starts doing the arithmetic out loud: what order any of this has to happen in, whether you close the portal before or after you free what is behind it, and how a person is supposed to reach the Hells in the first place.
By morning they are the talk of the camp. Brother Havoc lets himself into the tent without knocking, and he has questions: the fortress, the map, and whether any of it matches the reports he already has from a world nobody has walked in before. A debrief with command is waiting after that. The interesting part is not what they report. It is the short, quiet conversation they have first about what they are going to leave out.
New here? Crownfall is a self-contained D&D 5e campaign. Start at Episode 1 and you are caught up in a weekend. Episodes run about 30 minutes, tightly cut, no table admin.
Atmospheric background tracks by Tabletop Audio ➡️ https://tabletopaudio.com
If Crownfall is landing for you, subscribe and leave a review. It's the single biggest thing that helps new adventurers find the table.
Twenty Sides is an actual play D&D podcast for anyone who likes their Dungeons and Dragons campaigns tight, character-driven and low on housekeeping. Campaign 3: Crownfall follows Quinn, Miller, Annabel and Thelandor across Averynth, in the world of Eclura. New episodes every week.
Want more Twenty Sides? Check the links below.
Patreon | www.patreon.com/twentysides
Instagram | https://www.instagram.com/twentysidespod/
YouTube | https://youtube.com/@twentysidespodcast
Discord | https://discord.gg/74kucBWZFh

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 Miller's hood pulled low and a deception check standing between him and being turned away, and then they go and fetch the one person at the outpost who might be able to explain what happened to his eyes. They find him buried in three and a half days of scrolls, damaged texts and planar studies, because while they were gone he has been chasing a single question: why does a portal whisper? Portals don't whisper. What he found instead is the reason the party's whole understanding of that thing in the woods has been wrong, most portals are doors, but some of them are windows, and a window works in both directions.

Then he ties the tent shut, tells them he hasn't breathed a word of any of this to a single guard or commander, and asks Quinn what her name is.

New here? Crownfall is a self-contained D&D 5e campaign, start at Episode 1 and you're caught up in a weekend. Episodes run about 30 minutes, tightly cut, no table admin.

If Crownfall is landing for you, subscribe and leave a review, it's the single biggest thing that helps new adventurers find the table.

Twenty Sides is an actual play D&D podcast for anyone who likes their Dungeons and Dragons campaigns tight, character-driven and low on housekeeping. Campaign 3: Crownfall follows Quinn, Miller, Annabel and Thelandor across Avernth, in the world of Eclura. New episodes every week.

Want more Twenty Sides? Check the links below.
Patreon | www.patreon.com/twentysides
Instagram | https://www.instagram.com/twentysidespod/
YouTube | https://youtube.com/@twentysidespodcast
Discord | https://discord.gg/74kucBWZFh

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 out gets built one kill at a time. What they haven't worked out is what the spirits actually wanted. One of them sheds a tear before Annabel puts a dagger through its chest, and the table spends a moment deciding what that means. Two more appear kneeling at the altar, and somebody finally says the thing nobody wanted to say: we're trying to help them, and they have no idea.

Thelandor is down to four maximum hit points, which means one more coin puts him on the floor until the party can manage a long rest. The portal is barely wide enough to shimmy through. And every spirit that dies still has to pass through Miller to get there.

New here? Crownfall is a self-contained D&D 5e campaign — start at Episode 1 and you're caught up in a weekend. Episodes run about 30 minutes, tightly cut, no table admin.

CHAPTERS

0:00 Previously on Twenty Sides
0:25 Episode 37 begins — Crownfall
0:57 Annabel's steady aim and sneak attack
1:52 An ethereal tear
2:06 Round three — how much portal do we need?
3:00 Thelandor's critical hit and divine smite
3:33 Another spirit passes through Miller
4:52 Life drain and uncanny dodge
5:55 What happens when maximum hit points reach zero
7:25 Miller's action surge
8:02 The portal takes shape
9:45 Two spirits kneeling at the altar
10:05 "We're trying to help them"
13:01 Wide enough to shimmy through
14:36 Through the portal
15:50 Two more stand up
20:44 The other side
22:26 A plan
25:27 Out
26:23 Getting their bearings
29:12 Quinn tries something
31:48 Outro

If Crownfall is landing for you, subscribe and leave a review — it's the single biggest thing that helps new adventurers find the table.
Want more Twenty Sides? Check the links below.
Patreon | www.patreon.com/twentysides
Instagram | https://www.instagram.com/twentysidespod/
YouTube | https://youtube.com/@twentysidespodcast
Discord | https://discord.gg/74kucBWZFh