Kurt Crenwelge, the Bardic Paladin
Host of Sidekicks & Sidequests
Coming off his first podcast, BLANK TAPE, Kurt decided to try his hand at a solo, niche podcast. Thus, Sidekicks & Sidequests was born.
Kurt played his first D&D campaign starting on Halloween Night 2010 using 4th Edition. His first character's name was Otto Von Krieg, human wizard. After college, he fully converted to 5th Edition, and has been running and playing this version of the game since then (roughly 2015).
Character Art by David Lopez Serna, Dream World Studios
Kurt Crenwelge, the Bardic Paladin has hosted 171 Episodes.
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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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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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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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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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Cirrus the Rakshasa Entertainer
February 8th, 2023 | Season 3 | 54 mins 43 secs
disguise, dnd, entertainer, npc, rakshasa, tabaxi, ttrpg
We join the table of Nicholas Cardarelli and roll the dice to create Cirrus. Another rakshasa joins the roster of podcast NPCs; he is full of teenage arrogance and attitude in tabaxi guise. Cirrus entertains with his dexterous feats with a deck of cards, some might even say a magical performance! But when a "winner" tries to leave before signing the contract, Cirrus needs you help to stop that ship!
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Ashamel and the Looking Glass
January 25th, 2023 | Season 3 | 51 mins 47 secs
dnd, hadozee, mirror, npc, shopkeeper, ttrpg
We join the table of Bobby Angel and roll the dice to create Ashamel. He's a young hadozee who is stuck running the family's mirror shop. But like his grandfather before him, he yearns for the smell of adventure. Will you go through the mysterious Looking Glass hidden in the shop?
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Shango the High Priest
January 11th, 2023 | Season 3 | 1 hr 11 mins
deep scion, dnd, high, kraken, npc, priest, ttrpg
We join the table of Dr. Paul Gestwicki and roll the dice to create Shango. The high priest of a Deep Scion society serving The Kraken. But he's merely a child, not fully knowing or realizing the lessons his Mentor tried to impart. Dare you delve into the Trench of Doom to retrieve the cursed Claws of the Beast?
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Clover the Crystal Merchant
December 28th, 2022 | Season 3 | 59 mins 48 secs
crystal, dnd, dwarf, gem, merchant, mountain, npc, shopkeeper, ttrpg
We join the table of Johnny Stanton IV and improv our way into creating Clover. A mountain dwarf who started off as just another miner before he found is passion in crystals and gemology. Clover runs a touristy shop in the middle of a Brutalist-architecture society, complete with a crystal cavern tour! But a new cavern has problem creatures that need dealing with...
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Krongar the Red Mayor
December 14th, 2022 | Season 3 | 56 mins 48 secs
dnd, mayor, npc, slaad, ttrpg
We join the table of Lauren Walsh and roll the dice to create Krongar. He's a hungry and bloodthirsty Red Slaad, trapped in the Astral Sea. But never fear -- he's the Mayor of his little rock in the vastness of space. Krongar needs your help to return back to his people on either a march for revenge or a triumphant homecoming parade.
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Moose the Dressmaker of the Feywild
November 30th, 2022 | Season 3 | 1 hr 3 mins
dnd, dressmaker, fey, human, npc, tailor, ttrpg
We join the table of Matthew J. Hanson and roll the dice to create Moose. Don't let the name fool you -- she is the finest dressmaker in all of the Fairy Court. She literally sets the fashion trends in both the Feywild and the Prime Material Plane of the past! But Moose longs for her freedom that can only be earned by telling a worthy tale -- will you be the one to tell it?
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Ashira the Bearfolk Herbalist
November 16th, 2022 | Season 3 | 1 hr 10 mins
bearfolk, dnd, druid, herbalist, hermit, kobold press, npc, ttrpg
We join the table of Alyssa Visscher and roll the dice to create Ashira. Ashira is a grizzled Bearfolk and a hermit of a herbalist. She is more concerned with remaining in her secluded forest glade, tending to and cultivating in cooperation with Nature. Should you find her home and earn her trust, she needs your help to deliver a letter she should have sent years ago.
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Tayla the Immortal Artist
November 2nd, 2022 | Season 3 | 55 mins 36 secs
aboleth, artist, caricature, dnd, npc, ttrpg, yalkfolk, yikaria
We join the table of Mellie Doucette and roll the dice to create Tayla. Tayla is one of the yikaria, the yalkfolk, who wanders the land drawing caricatures of those she meets. Her drawings seek to find the truth and essence of the subjects she captures. However, she is a servant to a lurking, secret evil in the world, and she needs help to stop it before it's too late.