Episode Archive
171 episodes of Sidekicks & Sidequests since the first episode, which aired on February 19th, 2020.
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Del Ramman & Katniss the Hexblood Stonecasters
February 22nd, 2023 | Season 4 | 1 hr 7 mins
dnd, game design, hexblood, meta, npc, siblings, stonecast, ttrpg
We join the table of Dane Fox-McGraw & Benjamin Huffman to roll the dice to create a pair of hexblood siblings! Perhaps the MOST META episode of the entire podcast. These two endeavor to create "stonecasts" as they create new fantasy games. If only someone would journey to the Elemental Plane of Earth for a producer credit...
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Nox, Nori, and the Dragonstar
March 8th, 2023 | Season 4 | 1 hr 17 mins
apothecary, archaeologist, disguise, dnd, intern, lamia, npc, ttrpg, yeti
We join the table of Katie DeMatteis & Ben MartinMooney to roll the dice to create an unlikely pair: a teenage yeti on a summer internship for deep sea archaeology and a child running an apothecary for her parents. With mathematics and astronomy, they discover the Dragonstar. However, it's in a set of underwater ruins that Nox needs cleared of a dragon, and Alanora (Nori) wants you to bring back that meteor!
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Spruce the Maedar Bureaucrat
March 22nd, 2023 | Season 4 | 43 mins 44 secs
bureaucrat, dnd, maedar, medua, npc, ttrpg
We return to the table of Elyse Basile and roll the dice to create Spruce. A bureaucrat trapped in a Feywild gilded cage, this maedar (male medusa) is stuck with superfluous paperwork. He has a clue to the location of the Tome of Avarice. The question is, are you able to find someone to swindle or switch places with him for the location to the legendary book?
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Scheherazade & Sprocket, Mother and Son
April 5th, 2023 | Season 4 | 1 hr 5 mins
black market, dnd, homebrew, hule, lacemaker, mawyr, npc, ttrpg, tupi
We return to the table of Max Cicchino and roll the dice to create a mother and son pair: Scheherazade & Sprocket. Each are competitors in their public-facing lace-making and their underground black markets. The son needs you to acquire a particular piece, and the mother wants you to destroy the item. Each path comes with its own rewards and consequences...
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The Levitating Platter's First Patron's Pub Night
April 19th, 2023 | Season 4 | 1 hr 19 mins
bonus, dnd, npc, ttrpg
It's the 100th episode of the podcast. I'm joined by my friend and Patreon supporter, Anson Jablinski. It becomes a podcasting reunion of sorts as we discuss Sidekicks & Sidequests, future goals, and future offerings.
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Leeroy Jenkins the Vampire
May 3rd, 2023 | Season 4 | 1 hr 9 mins
dnd, human, npc, painter, ttrpg, vampire
We return to the table of Mark Wilson and roll the dice to create a LEEROY JENKINS, except, not THAT Leeroy. No, this one charged into a dungeon, got killed, respawned as a vampire, and now just wants to be a reclusive painter in a remote desert town. But when his prized portrait is stolen and the thief flees into the sun-scorched sands, he will need the help of heroes to retrieve the work and perhaps save his soul in the process...
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The Pumpkin Lady
May 17th, 2023 | Season 4 | 49 mins 43 secs
archfey, dnd, mob boss, npc, ttrpg
We join the table of Sam Rusk, who brings an infamous NPC from her own home game to the table, simply known as "The Pumpkin Lady". We roll the dice to reveal a true name, but she's an otherwise mysterious archfey who is morally gray and highly questionable. Rumors abound of her lavish rewards with those who are loyal.
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Mirquo the Tabaxi Falconer
May 31st, 2023 | Season 4 | 1 hr 7 mins
companion, dnd, falcon, falconer, harper, npc, tabaxi, ttrpg
We join the table of Steven Trinkl, my fraternity brother and brother-in-arms as we joined the TTRPG hobby! We roll the dice to create a tabaxi named Mirquo, a proficient falconer with a companion falcon named Graybill. He hunts for food and skins, but also serves a benevolent faction akin to the Harpers. Mirquo could use your help returning a library book...that's stuck on a pirate ship...in a town overrun by sea beasts!
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Bo Jang & Paul the Avenger
June 14th, 2023 | Season 4 | 1 hr 5 mins
armor, dnd, fighter, human, metal mimic, npc, ttrpg
We join the table of Alex a.k.a. LegalKimchi from YouTube! With some inspiration, we roll the dice to create Bo Jang, who is a metal/armor mimic. From a subset of symbiotic mimics who prefer to eat minerals and organics in order to increase their density, this old gal is as tough as beskar and light as mithril! She and her bearer, the illustrious Paul the Avenger, need the party's help to stave off war by playing match-maker at a gala event.
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The Goblin's Guard
June 28th, 2023 | Season 4 | 57 mins 14 secs
dnd, goblin, npc, siblings, tavern, ttrpg
We join the table of Kevin Ngo, a long-time listener, first-time podcast guest! Inspired by his children, he wanted to make a trio of bobble-headed goblin siblings who run a neutral, safe zone in the dungeon with access to clean water and fresh turkey legs (if you have the coin!) Sisters Rosewald Daybrace (The Money), Arili (The Muscle), and their brother Finn Wheatly (The Cook) need your help to chase down some gnolls who committed the greatest sin in the food industry: DINING AND DASHING!
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Khira the Death Knight Chimneysweep
July 12th, 2023 | Season 4 | 1 hr 19 mins
chimneysweep, death knight, dnd, npc, ttrpg, undead
We join the table of Mike Christensen a.k.a. SuperGeek Mike from YouTube! We roll the dice to create Khira the Death Knight. In the employ of wicked masters, she utilizes disguises to learn all about her targets before she brings them to ruin. Currently appearing as an unassuming chimneysweep, she has a lead on a fabled ring in the hands of a gambler that she needs back.
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OK Computer the Clockmaker
July 26th, 2023 | Season 4 | 42 mins 53 secs
astral elf, clockmaker, dnd, npc, ttrpg
We join the table of my niece, Lexi! She's never been a stranger to playing pretend, fairy stories, or using her imagination. So she rolled some dice and made an Astral Elf that is friends with a dragon! I don't think she's old enough to understand the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy or the Radiohead reference, but she's pretty "Lucky" that her "Subterranean Homesick Alien" wasn't some kind of "Paranoid Android".