Twenty Sides: A DnD Podcast

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 them to keep watching for the flash. There is a crack in it. Not a chip, a hairline, the kind you only see for half a second at a time, and it is enough to make the thing useless. Which leaves two options, and the first one ends with the portal staying open forever. The second one is a woman who lives in a thicket to the northwest, who can put it right, and who is described to them in terms that would make most people pick option one.

Back at the tent that night, somebody finally says out loud what the last four months have actually been like, and does something with a cup of water to prove to herself that any of it is happening. And in the morning, getting what they need out of the outpost turns out to cost something nobody saw coming.

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
0:36 Episode 44 begins
31:14 Outro

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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.
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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 the howling in the trees stops being distant. Six of them are coming up the road, five ordinary and one that is not, and they are not heading anywhere good. The party could let them pass. The party decides not to, and then immediately botches the approach badly enough that the things get to move first, which costs Miller more in one exchange than anything in the observatory managed.

What follows is the most lopsided fight this campaign has produced, in the other direction. Then one of the few still standing opens its mouth, and what comes out is worse than the howling was.

They get the prism to the one person at the outpost they trust with it, and he tells them exactly what it does by way of a story about his childhood that nobody asked for and nobody will forget.

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
0:41 Episode 43 begins
30:46 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 Avernth, in the world of Eclura. New episodes every week.
Want more Twenty Sides? Check the links below.
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YouTube | https://youtube.com/@twentysidespodcast
Discord | https://discord.gg/74kucBWZFh

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 works its way in through the roof. The armored thing they were fighting takes one look and leaves. Thelandor goes up toward the creature instead of away from it, which is either the bravest or the stupidest decision anyone makes this week, and honestly it might be both. Then the whole thing drops into the room and opens its mouth, and the party finds out what it does at range.

Getting out means going up the outside of a dome that behaves like a wet water slide, with a very large animal trying to follow. And then, on the way, somebody finally mentions a detail he has been sitting on for several minutes that would have changed the entire plan.

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
0:35 Episode 42 begins
30:16 Outro

Start Crownfall at Episode 1 ➡️ https://shorturl.at/tFgXM
Exclusive Content ➡️ https://www.patreon.com/twentysides
Listen Here ➡️ https://linktr.ee/twentysidespod
Instagram ➡️ https://www.instagram.com/twentysidespod/
Discord ➡️ https://discord.gg/74kucBWZFh
Website ➡️ http://twentysides.com/

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

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