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Join the Party is divided into Campaigns, each of which tells a long-form story over 50-60 episodes. We teach you how to play the game as we learn it too, so subscribe now in your podcast app (Apple, Spotify, RSS).
We are currently playing Campaign 3 🏴☠️🌱, a pirate story set in a world of plant- and bug-folk called Verda Stello. That’s marked as Season 4 in your podcast app, or you can check out the episodes and transcripts on our website here!
Or, marathon the entirety of one of our complete campaigns:
The Camp-Paign ⛺🌲, a short Monster of the Week campaign set at a summer camp. (Season 3 in your podcast app)
Campaign 2 🦸♀ ⚛️, a modern superhero Dungeons & Dragons campaign that we played in 2020-22. (Season 2 in your podcast app)
Campaign 1 ⚔️🧙♀️, a high fantasy D&D campaign that we played in 2017-19. (Season 1 in your podcast app)
If you’re new to Dungeons & Dragons, welcome! Learn everything you need to know about the game system in this short overview:
Completed Campaigns
The Camp-Paign
Camp Diogenes: Do What You Say, Be What You Do
This mini-campaign powered by Monster of the Week is set at a weird and wild summer camp. Organized in two-episode mysteries instead of longer story arcs, this short campaign lasts just 20 episodes.
How to Listen
The Camp-Paign is labeled Season 3 in your podcast app, or you can also stream all of the episodes here. We teach you everything you need to know about Monster of the Week in the episodes!
Movie posters for the Camp-Paign mysteries. Art by Sean Reynolds.
The setting of Campaign 2. Art by Squared.
Campaign 2
Lake Town City is a helluva town, where the leaves are bright and we never frown!
In 202X, America is dependent on the clean energy source Diaphorum, first discovered back in 1985 by Dr. Cassandra Morrow in Lake Town, NY. The town grew into a thriving metropolis as Diaphorum accelerated our technological development… aaaaand lots of kids from Lake Town grew up with inexplicable powers. What happens when Dr. Morrow, mayor of Lake Town City for 30+ years, recruits three 20-something powered folk to help her keep the weirdness of the city in line? And what do ghost cats, glowing mushrooms, and pixels have to do with it all?
How to Listen
Campaign 2 is labeled as “Season 2” in your podcast app. You can also stream all of the episodes here.
We also documented the process of building the world of Campaign 2 in these four pregame episodes. If you’re interested in worldbuilding and want to get as invested in the world of Lake Town City as we are, be sure to start with them!
Campaign 1
The Story
Did you hear this story when you were little? The one about the monsters who tried to eat the world and the heroes who rose up to save it?
Campaign 1 follows three unlikely heroes who meet in a prison cell beneath a palace, tasked with defending the crown prince on his wedding day in exchange for their freedom. That gets a little complicated a prophecy, seven city-states, and three gods get in the mix.
How to Listen
Campaign 1 is labeled as “Season 1” in your podcast app. You can also stream all of the episodes here.
Be sure to start from the beginning, and if you’re new to D&D, listen to the “Beginners Start Here” versions of episodes one and two!
The setting of Campaign 1. Art by Sun Mi.
The Punchbowl
Even on our off weeks, we're thinking about D&D and what it’s like to be a player in the modern world. Every so often we interview those who are pushing the game forward creatively, communally, and socially.
Listen to Punchbowl episodes here!
Interview with Carey Pietsch, the artist behind the graphic novel The Adventure Zone: Here There Be Gerblins. (Transcript here)
One-Shot Episodes
Sometimes we publish one-shots that tell standalone stories outside of our campaigns, always teaching you what you need to know to follow along. In 2023 we ran the One-Shot Derby, pitting three one-shots against each other to see which one prevailed!
Listen to a recent one-shot below and browse them all here.
Amanda GMs “Ah, Dang! Mothman Won't Move Out (He Said It Was Just For The Weekend)” by Ettin with players Brandon, Eric and Briggon Snow and Lauren Shippen. (Transcript here)