Rob relives his WoW dreams as they grind out levels in World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King . Andrew descended into Limbo to save his comrades in his Dungeons & Dragons 5E game Steve played with electricity and water in his fishy Electric Bastionland (by Chris McDowall) adventure as he fought octo-sharks as he plays through the Isle of the Plangent Mage (Donn Stroud). So many delicious oysters and clams around horrible sea centipedes. News : We talk with Alex Kammer , founder of Gamehol...
Oct 14, 2022•54 min•Season 1Ep. 32
Rob is still galivanting around the globe so we brought in a ringer, show favorite Andrew Kolb. He talks about his anticipation for his physical cartridge of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Shredder's Revenge , and we talk about which turtle we most identify with. Andrew drafted the new Magic: The Gathering set Dominaria , and dominated the competition. Steve was battling mind flayers and hunting down the mother brain in his D&D 5E game. News : We talk about the brand new OZ: A Fantasy Role-Pl...
Oct 05, 2022•47 min•Season 1Ep. 31
This week’s guest is Erol Otus . We talk about his cover for the Old School Essentials Box Set, his Dying Earth adventure from the DCC Kickstarter. He's doing lots of pencil sketches for Magic the Gathering's Forgotten Realms set. We talk about some of Dragon Warrior's favorite art from Alma Mater RPG (1982), and his time as a staff artist at TSR and his time in Lake Geneva. We talk about his painting process these days, and how he's been listening to Goldfrapp, “Tiptoe” and XTC “English Settlem...
Sep 28, 2022•1 hr 57 min•Season 1Ep. 20
We can't get enough Tolkien this week. Rob is off shooting a film somewhere so producer Zach hops on to talk about Middle Earth: Shadow of Mordor and how he scored a copy of Klingon Empire core rulebook for the Star Trek Adventures Roleplaying Game. Andrew explores high-tech miniture golf at Atlanta's Puttshack , and gained two levels in his D&D 5E game for Blüdhoof, his centaur fighter. Steve talks about his morning ritual of playing Clash Royale , the mobile game he's played the longest Ne...
Sep 22, 2022•47 min•Season 1Ep. 30
This week we fight for wartime pizza and create the cheese-o-licious magic items that'll save us all! World of Warcraft Classic, Wrath of the Lich King has Rob grinding for gold. Andrew swings and misses on mobile game, D&D Style RPG (choices game) . Steve enjoys local game shop, Giga-Bites Cafe , with an afternoon playing Electric Bastionland in the Old School Essentials adventure Isle of the Plangent Mage (Donn Stroud) while overlooking some very risky Warhammer battles. We discuss Dicebre...
Sep 14, 2022•36 min•Season 1Ep. 29
Andrew, Steve & producer Zach partied down at Dragon Con 2022 in Atlanta, GA. We talk about all the games that were played while Rob keeps us on track. Thursday Postcards from the Apocalypse Friday Race for the Galaxy Mystic Punks - Blood Mud (Mad Dungeon) MtG draft - New Capenna Saturday Runequest: The Broken Tower (Judge Walter) D&D5E Spelljammer: MekaVoid MotoKvlt (Mad Dungeon) WWMCU photo shoot Artemis Spaceship Bridge Simulator Sunday Mystic Punks - Nekrobarge of Pawlee the Elder Li...
Sep 09, 2022•42 min•Season 2Ep. 28
This week we recap our MekaVoid MotoKvlt poster release party at Sabbath Brewing, discuss how to prep going to a convention, and our plans and the games we'll be running at Dragon Con 2022. Dragon Con 2022 : This weekend we'll be running games at the following times: Friday 1pm - Mystic Punks RPG: Blood Mud, from Epic Levels Mad Dungeon Podcast Saturday 1pm - D&D 5E Spelljammer: MekaVoid MotoKvlt, from Epic Levels Mad Dungeon Podcast Sunday 1pm - Mystic Punks RPG: NekroBarge of Pawlee the El...
Sep 01, 2022•32 min•Season 2Ep. 27
Rob plays the same things they always are Counter-Strike: Global Offensive and TFT: Teamfight Tactics. They go over how the TFT ranking system works and how they finally moved from Silver Elite Guardian to Master Elite Guardian 2. Andrew played the DC Deck-Building Game with his wife, but has been up to his elbows printing shirts for the Old-School Essentials Box Set Kickstarter with art from Erol Otus and David Hoskins . Steve went to FLGS Giga-Bites Cafe to play Electric Bastionland (by Chris ...
Aug 25, 2022•56 min•Season 2Ep. 26
You’re a tourist visiting the sweet-smelling hometown of Connor Woodpond, the one-hit-wonder mega-star who wrote your favorite song, “Furry Boots and Slick Razors,” but he hasn’t been seen in years. There’s something about this town that just makes you want to sing your feelings. After your opening number, a mysterious figure in a trenchcoat and fedora implores you to save the rec center from Head Kicker and his bitchin’ Camaro gang, The Mutated Mullets. This week’s guest is Brian Shutter . We t...
Aug 17, 2022•1 hr 51 min•Season 2Ep. 19
Rob toys with their sanity with the original Darkest Dungeon in preparation to play the newly released sequel, a game where you're spanked by nuns and rejuvenated in the brothel. Andrew introduced Steve to Trails: A Parks Game by Keymaster Games. Steve 's Mystic Punks RPG character helps another PC give birth to a rat-demon-god baby. News : The crew watches the trailer for the film Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves EL Updates : On Aug. 29, 2022, we're hosting Dungeons & Dragons at ...
Aug 10, 2022•39 min•Season 2Ep. 25
Rob returns to their love/hate relationship with PUBG (PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds), but has no problem winning multiple chicken dinners on the latest 8x8 map, Deston. Andrew finished running the Neon Lords of the Toxic Wasteland introductory adventure, Space Truckers Must Die . While Steve's character tried not to get addicted to vita-sticks, Sluggo Brand Neon Apple Snack Fruit Pies and plutonium nyborg (space meth). In their D&D 5E game, Steve got into more political intrigue and survive...
Aug 03, 2022•57 min•Season 2Ep. 24
Rob chills out to the lo-fi hip hop soundtrack of Stacklands while Steve and Andrew make Katamari Damacy and Magic: The Gathering jokes. Andrew went on a field trip to Athens, GA and saw Tim Cappello, the sax player from the lost boys play. He stopped by FLGS The Rook & Pawn game cafe and played Campy Creatures & Parks by local game company Key Master Games. Both Steve & Andrew went to Southern Fried Gaming Expo and played a slew of pinball and ancient video games, test played Panda ...
Jul 27, 2022•47 min•Season 2Ep. 23
Captain Spike and his PiRat vikings have pillaged the coast of its precious paper and kidnapped villagers saying things like, “you look like a rat queen.” The villagers have collected a small amount of money to hire you to help them. The village leader introduces you to a swarm of rats in a trench coat who teleports you to The Witch of the Waves, a magical ship, to pursue Captain Spike to his lair so you can save the kidnap victims and stop this menace once and for all. This week’s guest : Ed Gr...
Jul 20, 2022•1 hr 35 min•Season 2Ep. 18
Steve and Andrew conquer Castle Amber with their Hyperborea RPG characters. Lots of D&D 5E as Andrew races barbarian dragon riders for his annual birthday game, and they get into some political intrigue in their weekly 5E campaign between the orc hordes and their cyclops leader. Andrew talks about Scythe and whether one should fight or farm with your massive steampunk mechs. He also played Survive: Escape From Atlantis where he flipped tiles and fought sea monsters, sharks & whales with ...
Jul 13, 2022•35 min
Cons! Cons! Cons! Rob played more Elden Ring and Counter-Strike while everyone else ran off to the ultra exclusive Cabin in the Woods Con where all attendants ran one game over a weekend in the mountains of North Carolina. Then Andrew ran off to North Texas RPG Con and Steve and producer Zach attended MomoCon in Atlanta. Join us on our next episode where we collaborate with Ed Greenwood . Epiclevelsrapgods.com P atreon I nstagram T witter F acebook You can support us via Patreon for early episod...
Jun 14, 2022•46 min•Season 2Ep. 21
This is the true story - of you visiting a planet that’s also a living god - trapped in a time loop - working together to stop a violent demagogue from committing deicide - to find out what happens when people stop being polite - and start getting healed: The Heal World. This week's guest: Brian Colin. We talk about his new TTRPG, Vast Grimm , a brutally horrific sci-fi port of MÖRK BORG and crowdfunded on Gamefound and distributed though Infinite Black . Brian is also an artist focusing on scul...
May 16, 2022•2 hr 4 min•Season 1Ep. 17
Welcome to the Questing! Rob, true to form, is still grinding away at Elden Ring. We just want him to beat Melania in time for dinner. Steve and Andrew continue their 5e game helping to save a metaphorical Hobbiton. Andrew discusses Twilight Imperium , the game that keeps on giving. In other news, Spelljammer returns to D&D with a slew of new playable space races. We list them all, and determine which of them Rob prefers to make out with. Do you remember your first gaming moment? We discuss ...
May 05, 2022•55 min•Season 2Ep. 17
You’re recruited by a secret society to infiltrate the grand opening ceremony of the New Colosseum, a tasteless theme park built in and around the original Colosseum. Billionaire scoundrel artist and owner of the New Colosseum, Crassus Kapoor, has pilfered holy sites from around the world to build his grim epcot catacombs in the hypogeum beneath the Colosseum. His hubris causes the blood of 400,000 deaths to rise as undead graveyard elementals and murder the crowd. You can stop the mayhem by loc...
Apr 21, 2022•2 hr 2 min•Season 2Ep. 16
We went to Gary Con, and we can't stop talking about it... or Tim Kask for some reason! Don't forget about his Curmudgeon in the Cellar YouTube channel where he tells you how it is. Rob continues their progress in Elden Ring, the zeitgeist game of the century. Andrew, Steve and Zach, along with many friends of the show traveled to Lake Geneva to play games with all the greats. We Interview John "Hambone" McGuire of The Vintage RPG Podcast to discuss their Children of UMA Kickstarter for their co...
Apr 06, 2022•50 min•Season 2Ep. 15
You paid good money for the hottest ticket in town, an invite-only art exhibit on Sword Art Island by the world famous Two Hands Sword, a magic sword that helps the wielder create great works of art. You arrive at the island with university art students, and couples looking for a wine & paint date weekend. You’re greeted by the pretentious art critic, Al Success and his retinue of snobby snoobs and robot butlers. Something odd is happening on the island. One by one, people go missing. Can yo...
Mar 22, 2022•2 hr 2 min
Hey Listeners! Glad to be delivering you the newest and juiciest news and happenings. Rob digs into Elden Ring , HARD, and we can't even peel them away from it long enough to record our podcast. Steve ventures to the land of Mystic Punks and Halls of the Blood King . Andrew continues to own Castle Amber in Hyperboria . NFT blowback can be a troubling thing to game developers like Chaosium and the crypto wars on Twitter rage on. Finally, we discuss the beauty of being a new player to games. See y...
Mar 09, 2022•41 min•Season 2Ep. 14
Help a devoted ghoul king retrieve a cursed locket to reunite with the ghost of his long dead lover queen, but you inadvertently raise the dead and summon a sexually unobtainable Purple Prince demon lord. The overgrown graveyard turns into a bustling center of hot-rod zombies, greaser ghouls and preppy mummies all going on dates at a gruesome fast food joint, making out at the undead drive-in theater and engaging in groovy dance fights. Can you learn the moves of the four dance masters before th...
Feb 21, 2022•1 hr 34 min•Season 2Ep. 14
This week we try something new by playing a Magic the Gathering game of Commander (EDH), live and in person, while we talk about the games we've recently played. Andrew discusses the culinary horror of X2 Castle Amber run using Hyperborea 3E . Rob talks about the communal aspects of the addictively fun web-based game Wordle which was just sold to the New York Times for over $1 million. Zach wonders how many hundreds of hours he'll dedicate to the addictively fun Oxygen Not Included to keep his s...
Feb 09, 2022•1 hr 19 min
Save your loved ones’ immortal souls from being consumed by the NekroBarge as it travels down the infernal River of Time to the netherworld. You’ll fight grim reapers, hunt ghosts and sabotage the psychopomp captain in this fight against time to stop the regeneration ritual of Pawlee the Elder Lich. This week's guest: Keith Baker is a game designer and creator of Gloom & the Eberron campaign setting for Dungeons & Dragons As owner of Twogether Studios, he recently released Dread Metrol: ...
Jan 27, 2022•2 hr
Happy 2022! We've been drinking nog and playing games. What about you? Rob plays a Rougelite game called Inscryption , Andrew thinks Scratch and Claw was a lotto win, and maybe we should have just let Billy Kerr die instead of playing Holding On: The Troubled Life of Billy Kerr . Epiclevelsrapgods.com P atreon I nstagram T witter F acebook You can support us via Patreon for early episode releases, bonus map content, extra art, access to our discord server, and lots of other exclusive goodies. Su...
Jan 12, 2022•51 min
We bring everyone good tidings as we light the Yule log and set up our Krampus ward spells. Rob talks Fantasy Realms and their favorite video game of all time, Dark Souls . Andrew the Tiger Wizard goes over his DC Deck Builder custom cards and the Mystic Punks RPG solo adventure zines. Steve the Dragon Warrior discusses his Lavender Wizard warband in the tabletop wargame Frostgrave . The gang does a deep dive into the "Pondering My Orb" meme and talks the best games to play with your family thro...
Dec 21, 2021•52 min
Lich lord Scapulator has built Crush Hammer Gym, a colossal skyscraper in the shape of a muscled arm flexing with a bulging bicep. He’s lured muscle wizards here under the guise of a fitness cult, but his actual intentions are to mystically syphon their strength into the gym to give it enough power to punch The Moon, a loving & benevolent god who looks down on the world while threateningly holding a shiv. Can the PCs stop Scapulator before he can initiate his world-ending punch of vengeance?...
Dec 07, 2021•1 hr 45 min
Get cozy in this fresh cool weather , because we have a toaster of a Side Quest! We discuss all the games surrounding Tiger Wizard's nuptials. There is a lot of hype around the new coasters that can also be found at Exalted Funeral . Finally, we discuss what our pets have been up to....as if that has much to do with gaming. Send us your questions for our next Side Quest. Stay tuned for our NEW song, Plans for the podcast next year, and Grant Howitt next week. Epiclevelsrapgods.com P atreon I nst...
Nov 24, 2021•49 min•Season 1Ep. 14
The Summer is winding down, and we want to get back to the grind of making some great podcasts. Here is a little of what we've been playing, and it's plenty! Steve fills us all in on what the Ennies are. Rob has been to Amazon and back, and he is living in a whole New World . Andrew just wants more mini's . Next week is Grant Howitt , a very gifted game designer. We discuss: Gen Con 2021 Halls of the Blood King from Necrotic Gnome Ticket to Ride Monopoly Deal Anomia Neverland: A Fantasy Role-Pla...
Oct 13, 2021•59 min•Season 1Ep. 13
It ’s hive mind vs. hive mind in this psychic invasion story! You’re consensually swallowed by Jonah, a gargantuan psychic fish whose mission is to keep reality intact. Jonah’s insides are a massive honeycombed hive-city whose inhabitants are psychically connected to Jonah’s mind. Trolli, a million glow worms, is a hive mind of chaos. They’ve infested Jonah and are ripping reality apart. This has severed Jonah’s psyche into four distinct brothers. To destroy Trolli, you must reintegrate the brot...
Sep 29, 2021•1 hr 37 min•Season 1Ep. 11
