Our adventurers find their way into the depths of Hades while the master of the underworld is away. His underlings are doing their best to dispatch these trespassers but they aren't likely to succeed. There are some unexpected visitors in the throne room of Hades's castle who offer up a premonition of the future but can they be trusted?Finally our adventures must make their escape from the underworld before Hades himself catches up to them while they get away with their snatched loot!

Heading deeper into the ground our group of adventurers encounter some strange things. Perhaps they are not alone in this seemingly empty cave after all. A riddle and a boat ride are coming up!

When your busy editing podcasts to make sure that content keeps streaming out to the legions of loyal listeners on the internet but your niece turns 15 and all she asks for is to play some DND with you. You drop everything and put together some DND for that girl's birthday.



Naturally I started prepping a game right away based on feedback from Tiffany that they had just been watching the Hercules movie. This first episode is based roughly on the fight with the centaur.

Neim Cave Painting: We fight shadow person. Smash him with axe. Was good fight. Cleff likes bananas, makes me like banana too!



All that stands in the way of our feywild adventurers is this shadowy temple guardian. The statues have been destoryed, but there's definitely a trick to the way this guardian fights. Perhaps they can figure it out before he manages to kill everyone's favorite character... Rain the griffin. Once the party gets inside what will they find? What has become of Asharis, Ghost Slinger, Merlin and Raal. Especially considering Asharis and Raal were both suffering from the negative effect that prolonged exposure to the shadowfell can have on you. Will Awen and her team of Fey companions make it? I can't wait to find out!



What's this... Light at the end of the tunnel? Well, perhaps darkness as we have reached the end of another wonderful season of DND Tonight. We hope you enjoyed it and can't wait to get you more great episodes in the future. See you soon for Season 4.

It seems our stand-in heroes are reaching the end of their journey. They have made it all the way to the temple atop the pyramid which Asharis, Ghost Slinger and Merlin managed to get trapped in and Awen can see the light of their spirits shining through the planes to her. There's only one problem. There appears to be a guardian and they aren't going to just let the feywild crew just walk in without a fight. There seems to be some trickery going on here as well? How can they fight this ghostly guard?



Neim Cave Painting: Shadow fight puny. Run away lots. I throw stuff til can hit good with axe.

Our feywild friends and their Paladin companion make their way to the Glacial Glade and the town of Skyfall only to find a swirling lake with a glacier at the center and ice closing in all around them. The helpful green Aarakocra that they saved from death in the snow suggests that they row out to the glacier they are so intent to visit in ceremonial canoes. You know what that smells like to me? A SKILL CHALLENGE!

Our heroes build an embankment against the freezing cold and Awen uses a rather unique solution to get the fire started in order to warm up this green bird man whom was slowly freezing in the snow. Once he awakens he expresses concern that the forest is freezing over and it will only get worse if they try to make their way to Skyfall the Aarakocra village at the edge of the lake. Through some rather unorthodox persuasion they convince him to lead them through the snow storm as he can act as their guide and pick out the way posts through the blizzard.Unfortunately Awen seems to be struggling with her concentration for some unknown reason. It's almost like the magic of the Feywild isn't agreeing with her material plane senses. When they reach Skyfall Awen can't focus enough to tell if her missing friends are nearby. Thankfully Neam has a plan to go to the glacier and open a door.



Neam Cave Painting: Find bird people live in birdy houses in the trees.

On this nail-biting entry into the DND Tonight annals our heroes heroes have to find a way to pacify a raging banshee. After which the weather seems to start turning even more unusually cold for this time of year. A snow storm soon blows in making it difficult for them to continue on their way. Things just keep looking worse and worse as they come upon a lump in the snow. It appears to be another adventurer almost frozen to death.

This time our heroes heroes must confront a terrifying undead minotaur . In the opening strike of the battle Awen faces down it's charge and in seriously wounded but with the help of her fey friends together I'm sure they will be victorious.



Neam Cave Paintings: Today I smashed a bull skeleton. Cleff named it Steve. Then caught fluffy rain on my tongue.

Our hero rescue squad find themselves suddenly surrounded by a field of flowers that weren't there when they went to bed. As they walk it seems as if the field is changing around them. They have lost their way from the path they were following but with some quick thinking they should be able to get back to the path. Eventually they make their way to a little straw cottage where they are greeted with a sound that they've never heard before... Mariachi Music. It seems that the work of our heroes in the shadowfell has been having a positive effect on those they've met. Here they meet a friendly Pig named Samson, definitely not Hamson. He gives them a friendly warning about not sleeping under a tree with sad leaves before they continue on their way.



Neam Cave Painting: Everyone knows plants play music, but Hamson plants play music like I no hear before.

Our party has set out into the wilds of the feywilds so naturally the first thing they come across is some unnatural river of nectar which has a shrinking spell all around it to try and keep neerdowells from making off with the sweet syrup. Our seconds team of heroes must make their way across a river of the stuff while they are shrunk down to only 3" tall. What trials are in store for our very tiny party? Listen in to find out!



Neim Cave Paintings: I was so tiny today that I used a blade of grass as a bridge to get across a lake which was only the size of a puddle. Then a button made me big again. So that's fixed.

A new story unfolds, unbeknownst to our heroes. Shortly after they were stolen away to the shadowfell by the fowl mechanization of Zabuza it seems Argal reached out to put together a rescue party. Awen rises to the call and begins on her quest to rescue the Chosen of Bahamut. It isn't long before she finds help in some unlikely fey allies. The satyr barbarian Neim and a pixie bard named Cleff. As long as the chosen do not loose hope the light of Bahamut will shine through to these unknown allies in the feywild! Uh Oh.



Neim Cave Pantings: Owl Bear try eat tiny wing people Neim eat owl bear.

The time is finally here a huge dinosaur statue four adventurers trapped deep in the depths of a dungeon seemingly no way out. Nothing but their wits and their weaponry to see them through to safety. The weight of the shadowfell despair is starting to weigh heavy upon their hearts. Will they win the day or succumb to the vile trap which they find themselves in? Lets listen in and find out!



Merlin Journal: I am still sore all over. We faced off against a monstrous reptilian statue. Unfortunately I couldn't get out of the way of it's charging attack. The beast ran me down like a rampaging bull. Gored me with one of it's horns and then trampled over me. I feel as if only the mystical healing light from the elf Asharis brought me back from the brink of death. I lightning bolted the things horn clean off it's head when I woke up. Unfortunately that's just the start of our troubles. The air in the temple has stopped moving. That blasted Zabuza has sealed the temple. I must rest to recover my strength then I shall set to studying this seal, perhaps we can find a way out.

Our heroes are still in the dark gray of the temple in the shadowfell. Finding themselves in the room with the artifact that they have been seeking. They decide that it is unwise to touch it without knowing exactly what traps and hidden triggers may be inside the alter chamber. Best to have a plan of escape. This means that they have several more side passages to investigate before moving forward. Much reprehension and worrying later does Ghost Slinger finally face Zabuza? Listen in to find out.



Alter Room Exploration, every passage that the party found they explored.



Merlin Journal: We've made it to the artifact that Argal sent us here for. It feels like a trap. I don't want to touch it until we have a plan for how to escape.

Our heroes find themselves traveling slowly through this dark place, cautious that around every corner could be a trap waiting to catch them unaware. However that's not enough to sap their spirits. Not even the Shadowfell despair has gripped them. Ghost Slinger even finds time to play an Oogie Boogie on Asharis. Right after she narrowly avoids getting run over by a runaway bolder.Oh Merlin's journal is in color this week. Strange he must not have been able to tell that he picked up the colored quill ink because the shadowfell has no color.







Behind the DM screen: This is what the party has seen of the temple so far. Except that big room behind the fancy door. They are waiting just outside the big room with the fancy door. Can't wait until they find out what is inside.

Inside this new mysterious room they find that they have encountered it before. It is the same room which was trapped and almost took off Ghost Slinger's arm in the last episode. Once inside entering through the secret entrance behind a statue an illusory message plays. Who left this message? You'll have to listen in and find out.



"Don't smack the lizard."Ghost Slinger after smacking the lizard statue



Continuing on our heroes find a new and mysterious room full of tiny creatures shouting "Ghost Slinger, Ghost Slinger, Ghost Slinger, Ghost Slinger." That can't be good right?



Merlin Journal: These paths seem to wind on forever and we have found them to be full of traps and illusions. Danger lies around every corner. To top things our party seems to be suffering from the ill effects of the Shadowfell already. Ghost Slinger seems to be taking it the worst.



Behind the DM Screen: This is how far the party has progressed on the Dungeon Map. They have made it into room 3.

Our heroes find themselves trapped in the dark. They will have to work together to find their way to the artifact hidden within while dodging traps and not loosing their footing. This also marks the beginning of a new style of DMing for a while, it's our first real dungeon. Which means I can share with you the Dungeon Map!



Dashiki Sunken Temple Path: The Red arrow is the entrance to the temple. The Green path marks the path which is well worn by the temple's prior inhabitants. Orange marks the path which our heroes traversed these ancient stone floors.



Dungeon Key: Each level of the Dungeon also has a Key for what the various things that the players may find as they make their way through is. Special thanks to https://donjon.bin.sh/5e/dungeon/ for their awesome tools to make this



Merlin Journal: We find ourselves locked in the darkness of an ancient temple which seems out of place in this realm. How did it come to be here? Our foes cannot be so powerful as to move a structure like this from it's realm to entomb it here. Can they?

This week our players have climbed up out of the literal muck of the bog to ascend the stepped terraces of an ancient temple of a long lost Deity. Who knows what they will find within it's walls. Who knows what fiendish pitfalls and traps may lay within. Only one thing is for certain. The stone pointing to the next artifact that they must recover is pointing towards the core of this temple so they must explore it's secrets.



Merlin Journal 61: We've come upon an ancient Temple which seems out of place for the shadowfell. We will proceed with caution

Our Heroes find themselves undisturbed by a ghost, then they find their way closer and closer to something that stinks. I sure hope no one falls into that nasty slimy water. Especially since the path keeps diverging and everyone is getting tired.



Merlin kept track how the hidden pathway through the mire progressed so that they might be able to make a quick exit if needed.

Battle is done with the ancient armor that had stalked this place. Now our heroes must rest and regain their strength. There is a tent nearby which could hold further enemies. They will wait until their strength is recovered to investigate it. What wonders will the find inside, more questions than answers.



Merlin Journal 1: We have come upon a tent ravaged by the ages of time. We fear exploring inside until our strength is recovered.



Merlin Journal 2: Within the tattered canvas I have discovered a most fabulous box of potions, however as we slept I was awoken by something outside.