[PUBLIC EPISODE] The Wizard, the Witch and the Wild One: ep047 "The Battle of Twelve Brooks: Part 1"
Added 2025-05-01 21:30:34 +0000 UTC
In the sky, war. On the ground, blood. There goes the neighborhood.
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Fun fact: the second round of luck & stealth checks (where Erika could choose to have disadvantage or not) have the exact same probabilities no matter what Erika chooses IF there was an EVEN number of checks. Because it was odd, Erika made the WRONG choice because it was rounded up.
Theredstoneking 3001
2025-07-17 18:25:50 +0000 UTCI noped put at 23' in, and I have no idea how to get through all of this 😨
Fxd Gear Queer
2025-06-08 08:21:42 +0000 UTCListening to this while trying to sew a baby blanket that now has my literal blood sweat and tears in it. Note to self don’t listen to WBN while sewing it will make you cry and stab yourself.
Kira Morrissey
2025-06-07 04:43:38 +0000 UTCListening to this while trying to sew a baby blanket that now has my literal blood sweat and tears in it. Note to self don’t listen to WBN while sewing it will make you cry and stab yourself.
The Wizard Sonus (KP)
2025-06-07 04:43:25 +0000 UTCI've only just recognised that the noise made by the Dreadnoughts is the same as the noise made by chalice/ Shadow!Emlys and I'm not coping!
Sil
2025-06-02 10:03:06 +0000 UTCI started out on the public feed, and only joined the Patreon about a month ago, while about halfway through the second chapter. Decided to pause in between these two episodes and finally go back to listen to the Children’s Campaign in its entirety. The introduction of Suvi during the first scene, as she clings to her mom during the battle. Chills. “Suvirin Kedberiket, right now, if you open your eyes - all that you would be able to see is the inside of your mother’s cloak.” 😭
TK
2025-05-26 03:25:17 +0000 UTCsightlessly 'browsing' shelves at the store bc my face is stuck on this expression 👁️👄👁️ while listening and I dont want to alarm ppl. 10/10
B
2025-05-25 11:04:17 +0000 UTCLike we say in the instruction manual (pinned as the top post on our patreon) we recommend using a podcatching app like Overcast or Pocket Casts or Apple Podcasts, or even Spotify if you prefer. Hope this helps! -t
Worlds Beyond Number
2025-05-20 01:57:29 +0000 UTClosing my mind trying to figure out how to listen to this
lethargic_god
2025-05-19 05:49:55 +0000 UTCPut off listening to this for weeks because I knew it would be A Lot and I was RIGHT. So many gut punches but the Weaver's Guild immediately had me in tears
taromilktea
2025-05-18 17:56:37 +0000 UTCI’m fucking awestruck and spent so many parts of this episode with my jaw literally dropped open. Incredible. Amazing. I love this storytelling so much. This is one of my favorite stories of all time. Also Fuckingggggggg STEELE HOLY SHIT
Aberdeen B
2025-05-17 18:00:59 +0000 UTCI am absolutely floored by the intensity of this episode! I love how Brennan demonstrates the overwhelming horror of war and how small the heros are within it without diminishing the importance of their goal.
Hayley Aronson
2025-05-15 17:04:48 +0000 UTCAnime level of shit! I love it
Lucas
2025-05-15 06:37:24 +0000 UTCThat combat scene with Eioghrain continually shape-changing is one of the coolest scenes that I have ever witnessed before my mind's eye. It reminds me a lot of an old nordic folktale that translated to "the wizard and his apprentice" where the apprentice steals a magical ring and the wizard hunts after him, both of them shape-changing to best catch/evade each other in the process.
Noah Sam
2025-05-12 17:35:54 +0000 UTCOMFG listening to the book 1 finale again when Morrow tries to cast disintegrate on Eursalon before Narram dispels Brennan says this: “The path that was chosen is Neram breaks the tower, breaks the wizards and saves you. And he sees a spell that can only is just a pure act of magical destruction and unmaking where your name would be rent from your memory and you would be sent back through time through the realms until there was nothing left of you.” Steel’s spell could totally just be like a super up-cast disintegrate or something maybe?????
Nicole Elton
2025-05-12 04:13:36 +0000 UTCMy jaw dropped in yhe first 5 mins and did not shut until several minutes after the episode ended
Witch of the Wandering Loam
2025-05-12 00:27:38 +0000 UTCFrom the fireside - she’s way too cool to use a piece of shit like that lol
Alex Wall
2025-05-11 22:34:57 +0000 UTCThis is a wild comparison but hear me out: WBN episodes are like eating the best snack you've ever had in your life. Every bite punches you so hard with flavor that you cry with the full range of human emotion, and the texture is so bewitching that you never want to stop
Lulu
2025-05-10 05:25:29 +0000 UTCI sat in full silence for about a minute before I freaked out, realizing that there would be no Taylor V.O. to leave me with a semblance of idk hope?? for the next episode
Lulu
2025-05-10 05:13:13 +0000 UTCI've listened to this episode 4 times now. The story is amazing as always, but the sound design and score are PHENOMENAL. It keeps bringing me back just to experience it again. It just makes that battle feel and sound so powerful and big. Take a bow, Fortunate Horse.
Darryl
2025-05-09 15:39:48 +0000 UTCSame. I see no link to play the episode. :(
Patrick Rochefort
2025-05-09 12:39:27 +0000 UTCAm I missing something? Patreon not offering anything to play, and yt music doesn't have ep 47 in the play list despite it being published for a week.
Kristian Gregory
2025-05-09 05:31:37 +0000 UTCEvery relisten is a new insight 😵💫 We really need a Lore drop on "arcane Rubyweave," and "working of gold bullion in the threading of it's spellwork warding," omg 😭 fk I wish I could draw
Sil
2025-05-09 02:03:30 +0000 UTCThis was... vile. Just... genuinely upsetting. Yes, I will have another helping.
Aubrae C
2025-05-09 01:31:20 +0000 UTCAnswered in the Fireside Chat 28:33. Thank you!
Adam
2025-05-09 00:29:39 +0000 UTCAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!
Louie
2025-05-08 16:50:44 +0000 UTCHe was the buff as hell wizard that was commanding the troop of wizards that Silver was recruited into
CryptidIncarnate
2025-05-08 13:31:42 +0000 UTCI had the absolute devastatingly perfect experience of coincidentally listening to the Twelve Brooks Interlude again right before getting around to enjoying this episode and it was the best accident to happen because oh my god every reference to it obliterated me!!! (The reasoning was i was on a road trip with my partner and friend and we did the one shots/class action/bag it or tag it and then we were too close to home to start the full campaign or childrens adventure but i realized we could do the interlude and like wow am i glad i did! ) this is my favorite story/media/entertainment i think naybe ever! 💜
Ayla Ludolf
2025-05-08 06:40:48 +0000 UTCWhich one was the Wizard Slain again? I feel like I’ve heard that name before this episode.
Jason Land
2025-05-08 06:24:54 +0000 UTCOh no....oh no.........y'all I think we picked the wrong side I think we need to go back to the Citidel....y'all I think we fucked up by defecting.....
Mothie Oak
2025-05-08 06:11:41 +0000 UTCTHAT WAS FUCKING AWESOME
Braden Rooke
2025-05-08 05:53:49 +0000 UTCSo yorin is lvl 25? 30?
Thimo The Fool
2025-05-08 03:45:58 +0000 UTCI absolutely adore the Foxfire sound! The Soundeffects make all the magic feel so distinct and real, it is so well done and delicately and deliberately placed, no wonder this took some more time to cook, it was the work of 4 episodes in one!!! Where did the lovely times at the cottage go...
Thimo The Fool
2025-05-08 03:45:08 +0000 UTCMy jaw was open for truly the first straight half an hour of this ep... and the entire ending. Chilling, gut wrenching, frightening and heart breaking; the SCORING, the acting, the descriptions, I mean. Fuck. This is the best show in the world. PERIOD.
Gill
2025-05-07 19:56:52 +0000 UTCJust full on Rurouni Kenshin shit, by the time she's drawn the blade it's all over. I did love the bullet-time to highlight how even though everything happens in the blur of a second, it is actually a series of highly calculated highly practiced moves Made it feel very "Wizard"
TheloniousPunkyBrewster
2025-05-07 18:59:45 +0000 UTCI'm just theorizing, but it feels similar to what Silence did to the Great Bullfrog- and, when thought of in context of the music box, perhaps these are examples of bespoke spellcraft, designed for a very specific target that simply needs a powerful enough delivery system?
TheloniousPunkyBrewster
2025-05-07 18:58:07 +0000 UTCThe way I feel about the Empire vs Gowth is Brennan's line in an adventuring party once of "no heroes" - there is no good guy or bad guy in the sides of war. But MAN THIS IS EPIC. I'm with Aabria - this is sick af I'm going back to the citadel 😂
Jo L
2025-05-07 18:58:04 +0000 UTCWhat The
Samantha Shepherd
2025-05-07 17:32:37 +0000 UTCwhat the fuck
Phi
2025-05-07 16:00:01 +0000 UTCI am a Marine Corps veteran. I've only been consuming TTRPG and live play stuff for a couple years but have been a long time nerd across all genres. I was "lucky" enough that when and where I was deployed we saw very little person to person action, but we saw a lot of indirect action. I have never heard a war scene described in a way that was this true to the experience. I've listened to this episode a couple times now and I'm still just blown away by the gravity and accuracy of the scene.
Scott Colby
2025-05-07 11:50:36 +0000 UTCThe description of the giants growing and fighting was so epic only to be then hit in the gut with the realisation that at the very least one of them is a teenager. With how steeped in fantasy this story is, it’s sobering to see a child made into a soldier and think ‘this is one of the more realistic parts of this story’.
Shreyas Joshi
2025-05-07 08:00:12 +0000 UTCHawkeye: War isn’t Hell. War is war, and Hell is Hell. And of the two, war is a lot worse. Father Mulcahy: How do you figure that, Hawkeye? Hawkeye: Easy, Father. Tell me, who goes to Hell? Father Mulcahy: Um, sinners, I believe. Hawkeye: Exactly. There are no innocent bystanders in Hell, but war is chock full of them – little kids, cripples, old ladies. In fact, except for a few of the brass, almost everybody involved is an innocent bystander.
Mel
2025-05-07 02:36:36 +0000 UTCI am missing the damage at 30:45. Lou solos a TPK hit?
Adam
2025-05-06 22:40:35 +0000 UTCMy main takeaway from this ep is that I really need to give druid another chance
Moosemade
2025-05-06 21:29:42 +0000 UTCThis was the methadone I needed to get me through to next week for part 2
The Wizard Salacious
2025-05-06 20:51:25 +0000 UTCweird thing to focus on during this amazing session... but doesn't Sky have a warstaff she stripped of citadel shit from her time in the cave? i remember she took one of the match sticks and did something to it so it wouldn't be a snitch like her ring... Obviously, they cant remember everything. but its just a detail that my brain clung too.
Xenkon
2025-05-06 20:28:53 +0000 UTCDoes anyone else feel like crying after that episode?? I'm gonna go take a walk.
QTheWizardSagacious
2025-05-06 19:31:31 +0000 UTCLITERALLLY TURNED EVERYTHING OFF 9MIN AND 45 SECONDS IN! Omg. Like???? God what an amazing episode
QTheWizardSagacious
2025-05-06 19:29:23 +0000 UTCI finally got the courage to listen to this episode and....oh. my. god. The Rollercoaster of emotions??? The full body sweats??? The inability to hold my reactions inside my body in a public place????? Ever-ree-body whatthabsolutefuc?????? My stomach was in my colon. Worms were in my skin. My heart was in my mouth. Help. I full on whisper-cussed our beloved witch out. Heeellllpppppp.
QTheWizardSagacious
2025-05-06 19:27:51 +0000 UTCI just had to come and comment.... incredible session as always. But, my god, that sound design was an absolute masterclass. Great job!
Dan Copeland
2025-05-06 19:01:47 +0000 UTCThe way I shouted “oh fuck!” When they rolled the 5. My wife thought I had hurt myself
Talia JM
2025-05-06 19:00:48 +0000 UTCBrennan is the God of this realm, he may do as he wishes for any motivations he may have If Steel had to erase a guy's name from the fabric of reality, Brennan shall make it so.
Eila Graff
2025-05-06 18:28:47 +0000 UTC(incoherent screeching)
The Wizard Sexy
2025-05-06 18:07:40 +0000 UTCI don't normally leave comments but I just gotta say Taylor is amazing what he's doing with the sound. All of you are amazing but the music and sound effects are giving the same rush and suspense as the first time I watched The Battle at Helm's Deep. Just continually impressed at everything you guys are doing. Thank you.
Alyssa Johnson
2025-05-06 17:42:29 +0000 UTCGuys I think I ran the most brutal DND session I have ever run in my 2 years as a DM… I knew it was going to be so brutal so instead of doing terrible things to their beloved PCs, instead I had my players inhabit NPC characters in a dream ( it’s kinda convoluted so I’m not going to explain). Wars waged by magical nations is truly a frightening thing, once you think about it at all. This episode helped me do that, and I inflicted that on my players. I obviously stole the luck check to cap the higher number my players could roll. The first turn was mostly introductions and setting the scene. Once the war began I rolls a 3… then a NAT 1!!! Safe to say the players basically had no agency. Well that’s not correct. They had agency, I reminded them that in any other day they would have succeeded, maybe even supernaturally so, but this was not any other day. It was felt terrible to tell a Cleric of Nature that Nature itself no longer wanted to listen to them, or a lieutenant was so horrified by the hurt he caused he was unable to give anymore commands… Yeah I don’t recommend doing this to your players unless you know what you are doing. And I for sure did not. Good thing I didn’t do this to their PCs. Lol
Mehmet
2025-05-06 17:20:05 +0000 UTCThat’s a good question. I feel like sending the Epiphany was a planned move but she probably does think Suvi is dead…and she’s probably releasing her grief on all of Gauthmine
Sammi Jacobs
2025-05-06 17:18:48 +0000 UTCQuick question for Brennan, umm when are you going to pay for the medical bills of you players for all the heart attacks you give them in the session. I think I nearly choked on my food when Aabria immediately rolled a nat 1
The Wizard Spoonbill
2025-05-06 16:45:41 +0000 UTCThe war unfolding is so crazy. Ever time one side pulls out a great power they get to cast one spell before something else takes that opportunity to delete them. Now Steel just made her play…do you think they have an answer to her? Also WTF was that severing of the bloodline?! I don’t remember that spell from 5E
ModernDruid
2025-05-06 16:41:23 +0000 UTCI was listening and super invested up to the last second. Then when it cut off I was terrified that my phone had crashed or something; but nope, that was just the end of the episode. HHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH, WHY WOULD YOU DO THIS TO ME, A CLIFFHANGER?! Please great thespians, give me but a crumb more
DanTheNinjaMan
2025-05-06 16:21:40 +0000 UTCThe episode ending... silence, I'm not breathing. The next episode on my feed autoplays "HI IM LOU WILSON AND THIS IS A GAME I MADE UP"
Jeremiah Pennell
2025-05-06 15:05:54 +0000 UTC[Lou Wilson voice] That is not okay.
BunSum
2025-05-06 14:54:13 +0000 UTCI’m totally at loss of words. I stopped breathing somewhere in the middle and just starting to take some air again. What the fuck Brennan??
Wizard Siam
2025-05-06 14:26:37 +0000 UTCThis is me starting the episode. Do we think the "miracle" of the Sword of the Citadel showing up to the front lines is the result of Steel once again thinking her daughter is dead?
Amaya
2025-05-06 13:39:30 +0000 UTCthis was insane. completely and utterly insane.
Giu Alonso
2025-05-06 12:06:20 +0000 UTCBrennan's plan probably would have been to succinctly describe how the stories of three vivid lives were cut off arbitrarily in the horror of war, no different from the thousands of other equally vivid lives extinguished in the episode. Then maybe we jump ahead to the story's epilogue as The Man in Black, Sir Curran, the remnants of the Coven of Elders, and the forces of Rhuve tear the tower down. It's an interesting question, though, because Brennan's repeatedly stressed "TPKs generally result from a party disagreeing on what to do" and the lesson here looks like it would have been saying "TPKs sometimes result from a Lovecraftian flesh monster unilaterally deciding to kill you, communication doesn't matter, he big"
Manifesting Good Posture
2025-05-06 08:44:34 +0000 UTCI don't think I've ever wanted stat sheets for NPC's more than I did at the end of this episode... Umm... What the actual fuck happened there?
Michael Eckert
2025-05-06 03:05:26 +0000 UTCUhhh holy fuck Brennan???
Michael Landes
2025-05-05 23:10:00 +0000 UTCI just really want to know what Brennan’s plan was if the luck checks went bad and the whole party got vaporized by a cannon?
The Wizard Sloppytoppy
2025-05-05 21:52:46 +0000 UTCAlso, the sound mixing, the effects, the horrifying throbbing of the dreadnaught; Taylor, well done.
Sean Hoffman
2025-05-05 21:19:01 +0000 UTCThat sword, though. That sword.
Deborah Kate
2025-05-05 21:10:40 +0000 UTCAll of Brennan's VO about the Epiphany absolutely could have been prefaced with "THIS is another use of The Idenitify Spell!" and swinging from that Fantasy High vibe to the content of this episode after joining the Patreon SPECIFICALLY to listen to the Twelve Brooks Interlude was WILD. The horror and pathos is real. Damn, guys.
Sean Hoffman
2025-05-05 20:51:10 +0000 UTCMy reactions began with “Oh Shit!” and ended with “Oh Mommy”
Erin Michelotti
2025-05-05 18:39:54 +0000 UTCI'm still confused on the dispelling agent bottles. I seem to have completely forgot about what they are.
Cody Zimmer
2025-05-05 18:23:58 +0000 UTCBehold the fruits of empire.
Cody Zimmer
2025-05-05 18:22:01 +0000 UTClistening to this on the train so i can’t scream/laugh/cry about it. i absolutely understand how aabria felt on that plane now
Atlas
2025-05-05 18:03:32 +0000 UTCThey probably just reused the sound. I don’t think there’s a connection But there’s definitely a connection between chalices and the man in black. The man in black is apparently where the Rhuuvian warlocks get their power. He has a lot of influence there, and I’m really curious of how the internal politics of rhuuv work. I really hope we get to see it at some point
The Wizard Strike
2025-05-05 16:42:15 +0000 UTCUpdate as of 34 minutes and 6 seconds. #$%#&£÷$@&%$♤♡◇♧☆
Ajax
2025-05-05 16:19:02 +0000 UTCWith my app on autoplay, that ending leading directly into Lou's Class Action intro is beautiful.
FallenErlenmeyer
2025-05-05 16:16:55 +0000 UTCSpoilers... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... Hi. Howdy. Hello. I have paused the episode at 29 minutes and 21 seconds. I don't have a comment. I'm just going to live here in this space for a while. Before whatever awful thing is about to happen is solidified in cannon.
Ajax
2025-05-05 16:12:57 +0000 UTCI'm relistening to early episodes and the sound that Captain Emliss makes when the darkness pours out of her mouth is the same that the Dreadnoughts make 👀 And Emliss having the mark in Ruve(sp?) that means "chalice," and the Man in Black's clothes being covered in chalices
Witch of Wobbly
2025-05-05 15:23:31 +0000 UTCBrb gotta go listen to the twelve brooks interlude and pretend none of this happened xoxo
Viola
2025-05-05 15:09:07 +0000 UTCYou know you’re right it did sound like a whale🔥
The Wizard Sparrow
2025-05-05 15:03:05 +0000 UTCWhat got me was the colors of dye stained on the rubble…The fabric shop😭
The Wizard Sparrow
2025-05-05 15:00:03 +0000 UTCI wanna know how everyone reacted when they listen to the episode.
The Wizard Sparrow
2025-05-05 14:57:52 +0000 UTCOn the second listen I was able to comprehend a bit more which only led to sobbing with the true understanding what Steele had just done❤️🦊🔥
The Wizard Sparrow
2025-05-05 14:57:11 +0000 UTCSuvi: yeah I’m just gonna hold this rope for about a week. Don’t mind me. I’m just hanging around lol
The Wizard Sparrow
2025-05-05 14:54:20 +0000 UTCYep, felt that cry in my heart
The Wizard Sparrow
2025-05-05 14:53:27 +0000 UTCDefinitely found his calling🤗🦊🔥
The Wizard Sparrow
2025-05-05 14:52:47 +0000 UTCSomehow, every new episode in this book I say "this is the best episode they've ever made!" Keep up the fantastic work gang.
Tyler Merlino
2025-05-05 14:27:26 +0000 UTCWas it explicitly called out as a wish spell?
The Wizard Seeker
2025-05-05 13:50:02 +0000 UTCBrennan - you’re nuts for this
Andrew Gilson
2025-05-05 13:13:47 +0000 UTCHey so what the fuck and also oh my god. The Dreadnaught screaming without a mouth was INSANE. I feel high.
Nefeli
2025-05-05 12:11:03 +0000 UTCI got to the end of this episode and just had to say "holy shit" to myself three times because the ending was so crazy. And to end the episode with asking Suvi is going to do is such a cliffhanger
The Wizard Shadow
2025-05-05 10:41:58 +0000 UTCTruly the greatest TTRPG experience I've ever had
Amelia Malcolm
2025-05-05 06:41:25 +0000 UTCThis episode has gotten me just silent at work , immediately needing a relisten. The story and world building is breathtaking , thank you all for sharing this world with us all
Sage
2025-05-05 06:40:13 +0000 UTCI don't even know what they're going to talk about at the fireside
Maximillian Petersen
2025-05-05 05:51:22 +0000 UTCListening back to the Twelve Brooks interlude after listening to this… the cheese reference 😭😭 it hurts
Witch of the Whispered Word
2025-05-05 05:40:05 +0000 UTCHonest to god I just had to crouch in my kitchen laugh crying in absolute shock and awe. Brennan you god damned genius.
Erik Koch
2025-05-05 04:42:55 +0000 UTCThis ep was insane and I 100% understand why it was delayed now
Kyle Granger
2025-05-05 01:41:52 +0000 UTCThis ep was AMAZING. I couldn't even start a new podcast after this ended, I just finished making dinner alone with my feelings. I had goosebumps for an hour and thirty-six minutes straight, I burned dinner, and screamed into the wall for a little treat when Steel took to the field to just UNMAKE an entire lineage. What a triumph!
Mattea Orr
2025-05-05 01:33:11 +0000 UTCSending hugs. We all need that fireside chat rn for emotional aftercare.
Jazz
2025-05-04 21:13:01 +0000 UTCI haven't finished the episode and I NEED everyone to get new dice (esp you Aabria) because WHAT THE FUCK YALL I almost had a damn heart attack on that battlefield. Also need to know what animal audios were sampled for the dreadnoughts? It sounds like whale/porpoise mixed with elephant maybe?
Jazz
2025-05-04 20:37:10 +0000 UTCSteven’s Point? I graduated from UW Stout…small world 🦊🔥🤗
The Wizard Sparrow
2025-05-04 19:34:11 +0000 UTCI’ve done that plenty of times and yet I always find something I’ve missed🦊🔥
The Wizard Sparrow
2025-05-04 19:29:37 +0000 UTCOoo, this is a thought that crossed my mind too. Like, who was the Sword of the Citadel when Suvi’s parents were killed???
The Wizard Sparrow
2025-05-04 19:27:41 +0000 UTCRoller coaster of emotions 🔥🦊
The Wizard Sparrow
2025-05-04 19:25:25 +0000 UTC💯
The Wizard Sparrow
2025-05-04 19:23:21 +0000 UTCBring it🦊🔥
The Wizard Sparrow
2025-05-04 19:22:50 +0000 UTCgoated fr
Boris Bokchoy
2025-05-04 19:16:50 +0000 UTCI think the Dreadnaughts themselves perhaps aren't as intelligent as the things they carry- i wouldn't be surprised if it just alighted upon the biggest moving mass. Imo, a big splash of darkness amidst a battle of flashy armor and magic may stand out more on the ground. But it also means there's a bigger target and, as evident, more room to dodge within.
The Wizard Seek
2025-05-04 18:24:40 +0000 UTCHahaha aftercare is a great idea. We should start throwing up links to calming lofi on the discord after these episodes 😂
Cackle Cackle
2025-05-04 17:55:26 +0000 UTC“That was for me” was one of my favorite lines from this episode. I feel Ame in my souuuuuuul.
Cackle Cackle
2025-05-04 17:53:11 +0000 UTCAlright fuckers I’m two episodes from catching up and then I have questions to ask!
ModernDruid
2025-05-04 17:11:12 +0000 UTCZe spoilers ahead but casting Wish through a sword is WIIIIIILD
Lucas Nguyen
2025-05-04 16:55:55 +0000 UTCthere are some legends who say they are still rolling d4s to this very day....
Lucas Nguyen
2025-05-04 16:53:14 +0000 UTCThat was a hell of a thing.
PocketNyx
2025-05-04 13:42:57 +0000 UTCI just listened to it again and it hit just as hard, if not harder, than the first time
Elizabeth Boskey
2025-05-04 13:30:24 +0000 UTCHonestly another INCREDIBLE INCREDIBLE episode, I don’t know how you make something this huge, this dramatic, this gorgeous in the amount of time you do. As an entire team, this is simply stunning and such a privilege to see the creativity and imagination just spool out into something so immense. I have so much more to say but I’m exhausted. Except — I TOLLLLLLD YOU STEEL (steal??) WAS EVIL I TOOOOOOLLLLLD YOUUUUUUUU EVIL MOMMY.
Cackle Cackle
2025-05-04 09:14:31 +0000 UTCOk guys I have maybe a dumb question. Did the dreadnaught turn on Suvi, Eursalon and Ame because of the type of magic Suvi used? Like, did it suggest their group were imperial? Or were the dreadnaughts just never on the side of Gauthmai (sp?) and I had imagined it wrongly from the get go?
Cackle Cackle
2025-05-04 09:10:47 +0000 UTCLolol meAT/ATs
Cackle Cackle
2025-05-04 09:08:32 +0000 UTCYESSSSSSS
Cackle Cackle
2025-05-04 08:57:13 +0000 UTCThat was TOO MUCH SAUCE BRENNAN! TOO MUCH SAUCE! T-T did not have to go that hard but here we are.
Krisse S
2025-05-04 08:53:40 +0000 UTCOmgggggggg maybe she stole BABY SUVI WTF OMG
Cackle Cackle
2025-05-04 08:43:49 +0000 UTCDon’t feel silly — the public episodes are only on other platforms (Spotify, apple, etc). There’s a link to them in this post’s description. ❤️ welcome to the Patreon!
Cackle Cackle
2025-05-04 08:42:01 +0000 UTCWhen the Epiphany mass magic missiled the dreadnought how long did it take you to roll all the D4s for damage?
Robert Ball
2025-05-04 07:23:35 +0000 UTCBriliant, brilliant episode!! One question: @Brennan, can you speak a bit to the nature of the „Sword of the Citadel“? At the beginning I thought this simply meant being the highest ranking general, but after the last fight, I wonder if it also makes you the designated „PvP“ person for on-battlefield boss battles? And would „Slain“ have been the next in line? Love your work so much, best wishes from Germany :D
Philipp Schreiber
2025-05-04 07:06:44 +0000 UTCEpisode 1 of asking for a public release of the OST every episode
Brendan Thomasson
2025-05-04 06:46:51 +0000 UTCAbsolutely TOP tier sound design and mixing and audio editing this episode oh my LORD.
Valkyrie
2025-05-04 05:49:43 +0000 UTCWell and truly gagged
Busang
2025-05-04 04:15:52 +0000 UTCThis is the first episode I had to wait for to come out I binged the whole show in like a month and now I am dying for fireside and the next one this show is pure perfection
The Wizard SpongeBob
2025-05-04 04:07:50 +0000 UTCBold of you to assume Brennan will keep these players tied to their class features, if the campaign makes it to epic levels (I pray it does) then they’ll surely be up to some equally crazy shit via homebrew etc.
Christian Williams
2025-05-04 04:06:54 +0000 UTCTaylor with the sound design was in epic mode this episode. This may be the first time in an actual play podcast where the terror of war between magical factions really feels on point. Bravo Brennan.
James O'Dwyer
2025-05-04 03:33:29 +0000 UTCAt 3:30 the wait was worth it.
Gregory Barr
2025-05-04 03:26:11 +0000 UTCI love how much they got me to identify with Suvi by actually taking us to the Citadel for Arc 2. Like, one second I’m surrounded by civilians doing awesome research and enjoying yummy sandwiches in an incredible wizardpunk city. Then the Citadel is *taking children* and it’s an atrocity and I want to burn things. Then I’m surrounded by literal nightmares and Brennan keeps saying the word “fleshcraft” and boy do I hate THAT. So I find myself accidentally cheering for the Citadel again. And then they’ve got an effing dragon chained THROUGH ITS CHEEKS and that’s horrifying. And then Steel is Suvi’s MOM and she is saving her own people, but she is also committing the single most upsetting act of magic I have ever seen. The emotional ups and downs of all this are crazy.
Kaleen Davis
2025-05-04 03:13:11 +0000 UTCSEVENTEEN MOTHERFUCKA
LVK
2025-05-04 03:11:49 +0000 UTCWow, what an episode! But I think we sorta transitioned out of the world of DnD when it came to this fight. Like, I know this is heavily based on a Gibli esque anime, but the early stages, you could still guess what most of the spells were or what skills people were using. But Steel, with time stop, uses a spell that not automatically kills an enemy but all of their descendants?! That's when I knew we transition out of the realm of just dnd and into straight fantasy. Don't get me wrong, that is awesome in some ways, but then it definitely puts our players at a disadvantage since they will largely be tied to their class features, and yet we got npc's that can wipe out your entire lineage by just killing you LOL.
leotoffee
2025-05-04 02:50:14 +0000 UTCWith the exception of Steel, do many wizards know Eursolon's true name? I feel like they were always careful to call him Bear in front of others. But I could be misremembering. 😩
LadyMage
2025-05-04 02:39:38 +0000 UTCI feel really silly because I see the post saying the episode was put out already, but I can't find it anywhere on patreon to actually listen?
Nixon VanJustice
2025-05-04 02:34:59 +0000 UTCBrennan, my partner and I love your inclusion of the magic of names! We both went to school in Stevens Point WI, home of Patrick Rothfuss, author the Kingkiller Chronicles. Pat’s books share a parallel with WBNtWtWatWO, in that magic is treated like a scientific system where true names of beings and concepts unlock the highest forms of power. Our question to you is - what kinds of real world mythology and media were you drawing from when you dreamt up the magic of Umora? Lots of love - Thomas and Jamie
Thomas Moberg
2025-05-04 02:26:11 +0000 UTCI apologize to everyone I passed on my morning walk for having to see me make so many funny shocked faces and low key swears while listening to this ep. What. A. Start.
Ammar Khalid
2025-05-04 01:31:51 +0000 UTCWas that "no!" after the ghost reveal from aabria or suvi? Did the players have any inkling about the dispelling agent before this episode?
Alexandra Young
2025-05-04 01:22:50 +0000 UTCFor the hundred yards mention- 100 yards is around 1 soccer/football field long.
Tessie Owen
2025-05-04 00:33:27 +0000 UTCMy Spotify just stopped and I was driving in silence in my car… just processing
BriJoy H
2025-05-04 00:24:30 +0000 UTCHere just to give lots and lots of kudos to everyone. From the storytelling, to those dice, to the sound effects, to the music. Worth the wait. Please always take as long as you need to make this magic happen
Nikki W.
2025-05-03 22:17:11 +0000 UTCI didn't quite wait that long but absolutely, same. Would have been a very WBN move for Aabria to pause for 10 seconds and build tension right there before answering.
xelamorph
2025-05-03 22:00:17 +0000 UTCThe ending of this was so intense…only to have the audio player immediately queue up Lou Wilson hosting Class Action
Devon
2025-05-03 21:11:51 +0000 UTCSpelling on the Wizard Steel. Is it actually Steal? That would be insane. Like she stole back things that had happened. And then the lives of hundreds all at once.
Devon
2025-05-03 21:10:20 +0000 UTCSome moms drive minivans and show up with orange slices. Other moms drive nuclear armed carrier strike groups and show up with 360 battlespace dominance in enemy controlled theaters.
Brandon Carbaugh
2025-05-03 18:53:07 +0000 UTCMy dumbass brain would like to add “wungeons and war crimes” as an alternative
Iris
2025-05-03 18:15:03 +0000 UTCFor me, this makes her irredeemable. War is war, but killing in this way is genocide.
The Quiet Footpath
2025-05-03 17:52:59 +0000 UTC🦊🔥
The Wizard Sparrow
2025-05-03 17:42:44 +0000 UTCOMG….You’re right🦊🔥
The Wizard Sparrow
2025-05-03 17:33:39 +0000 UTCNot popcorn, more like a box of Kleenex, a token, some sage and a notebook filled with the words JUST BREATHE 🦊🤗🔥😂
The Wizard Sparrow
2025-05-03 17:18:59 +0000 UTCAny true name…like Suvi’s Parents
The Wizard Sparrow
2025-05-03 17:05:09 +0000 UTCI am wondering the same..Witch of the Worlds Heart..what will you do?
The Wizard Sparrow
2025-05-03 17:01:02 +0000 UTC😨 oh I really hope the kids just lose their gifts!
Bizarre Little Star Creations
2025-05-03 16:53:08 +0000 UTCI’ve listened twice now, and those last few minutes of Steele/Steal eradicating the house of galthmi is so unsettling (heavy weight on my heart). The intel from the music box has given the citadel permission to eliminate anyone or anything in their path to victory. I feel for Suvi as she holds onto that rope. Waiting for part 2 is going to feel like forever. Only a few days until the fireside chat so that that’s a positive
The Wizard Sparrow
2025-05-03 16:51:25 +0000 UTCI….am….not….okay.
TracieP
2025-05-03 16:43:39 +0000 UTCWas I the only one who thought the silence after the last question was just amazing dramatic tension building to an answer? I waited a full 5 minutes in rapt silence before I realized the episode had ended 🤣
Quarry Brother
2025-05-03 16:42:45 +0000 UTCThat makes so much sense! I forgot that they got that huge amount of intel! Oh man Suvi is going to have a lot to reconn with when she realizes just what the consequences of her actions are.
Bizarre Little Star Creations
2025-05-03 16:37:43 +0000 UTCI got really overwhelmed with this one 😰 didn't help that right before listening to it I watched a video on the republican party becoming the party of apathy and actively saying empathy is bad so my mind made the show so real since the right glorifies war and I just got so upset. Really good episode but sometimes its too real 😭
Bizarre Little Star Creations
2025-05-03 16:35:11 +0000 UTCComing back after having listened and yes, I was right to be scared! What in the H. P. Lovecraft. Literally horrifying war scenes, I sorta cried just from the terror and awe. And just wow, wow to the rest!!!
Casey Furtado
2025-05-03 16:14:07 +0000 UTCI feel nothing anymore, I am in shock and awe and terrified for the next episode. ALSO WHAT THE FUCK STEEL!!
Eden
2025-05-03 15:14:33 +0000 UTCTaylor, my guy- was that the same sound effect in the stars at Steel's blade that you used in the Library of Stars? Because while I'm *HAUNTED* by Steel's sheer power, I'm hoping the similarity means she got the knowledge of his true name from Indri's library somehow- and not from just being able to strip a man of his wholeass existence and his lineage with a three point turn of her sword. Also, while I'm here- The Epiphany sting is AMAZING
The Wizard Seek
2025-05-03 14:56:09 +0000 UTCThis episode was powerful! Brennan, were you rolling for things at any point or was this just the way you wanted it to go? The sound design was incredible! The sound of the bodies falling out of the air was chilling! I literally yelled "Ah" when my next podcast started after Brennan said, "Suvi, what do you do?" Holy shit, I love it here and I hate it here at the same time!
Michelle Spurgeon
2025-05-03 14:04:28 +0000 UTCLooked like she made it like he never existed to me.
Michelle Spurgeon
2025-05-03 13:59:35 +0000 UTCWill some please tell me what the hell Steel did to that man?
Alex
2025-05-03 13:48:32 +0000 UTCI listened to it before a Teams meeting and that was not my wisest move. Also my housemate heard me weeping about the terrified 17 year old and that was also not great 😅
Sil
2025-05-03 12:57:24 +0000 UTCobsessed with “who picked 4?” “I did” dun dun dun dun dun, i need to know if it felt like that in real time
Morgan Andrews
2025-05-03 12:43:23 +0000 UTCwhat happens at the end of this episode….absolutely fucking harrowing and what a brilliant way to take the magic of wizards to its furthest logical end, its cruelest and most hubristic……I just know ursula k leguin is nodding in approval somewhere
katie
2025-05-03 12:19:21 +0000 UTCI have never wanted to be wrong about something more in my life. But goddamnit that white dispelling agent gave me the ick from the start.
Ellie Hail
2025-05-03 11:07:14 +0000 UTCDungeons and Dragons? More like Wizards and Warcrimes.
Liv Tealeaf
2025-05-03 10:51:16 +0000 UTCMy dumbass decided to put this on at bedtime. Big fucking mistake jfc. I will not be sleeping tonight. Thanks a lot team. (But fr well done team what an episode.)
Liv Tealeaf
2025-05-03 10:31:04 +0000 UTCPublic episodes are posted on platforms like Spotify and iTunes
Jordan Charles
2025-05-03 09:02:46 +0000 UTCAhhh! It started storming as I was listening. Scare me a bit but excellent episode. Great sound work!
MagnaniMel
2025-05-03 08:34:33 +0000 UTCI thought dreadnoughts were dread-nots (twisted twisted name)
Júlia Vincent Rubiolo
2025-05-03 08:24:28 +0000 UTCI've relistened to the last 10 minutes over and over again, those descriptions are beautiful. Truly some of the best fantasy writing I've had the pleasure of hearing!
L Cairns
2025-05-03 08:11:09 +0000 UTCThis was incredible, so unbelievably intense, and elft me wanting for more. It was an especially surreal experience because I listened to this while making adorable tiny little fondant frogs for my kid's birthday cake, and the parallel with the fate of the giant bullfrog hit me like a ton of bricks. I'm now emotionally bruised but also have an adorable cake, life is a roller-coaster!
Alice Farina
2025-05-03 07:49:31 +0000 UTCThis is one of the greatest things I've ever had the pleasure of listening to. You all should be unbelievably proud. It was an immediate relisten something I've never done.
Ian Mcilwean
2025-05-03 07:01:50 +0000 UTCWhy is there no play button when I try to listen to this?
Ellis Reed
2025-05-03 06:56:55 +0000 UTCThe silence at the end hits so hard. I had to sit down for a moment and let the gravity of the situation soak in.
Pixel Pirate
2025-05-03 06:43:31 +0000 UTCEp23, 40.00min "The diviner that you spoke to in Kabani (sp?) who tried to warn her that she was dead in days?" "What happens to them if I tell you their name? I trust you with my life, please tell me the truth." "...What do you think I'm going to do Suvi? Think I'm going to go find the Diviner who was probably ensourceled (sp?) Or enchanted by a powerful Witch or this Coven of Elders, and I'm going to have them beheaded in the Square?" Oh, I dunno Steele... maybe? Maybe if you're clever enough to find out Sly's true name you'll wipe his entire family from existence? #justwizardthings
Sil
2025-05-03 05:48:41 +0000 UTCThis is the best there has ever been for dnd type stories on this medi. This easily tops any D20 also, so important and well done THANK YOU
The Wizard SpongeBob
2025-05-03 04:44:59 +0000 UTCNot me being like IS THAT HER MOM?!? And then being like THAT IS HER MOM AND SHE TOOK OUT SO MANY PEOPLE AT ONCE.
RT
2025-05-03 04:12:50 +0000 UTCI think it's Task that is helping her cast
Sil
2025-05-03 03:33:34 +0000 UTCThank you SO MUCH for this explanation haha - I have trouble remembering minorish characters like Ghost from so long ago
Katie D
2025-05-03 03:31:57 +0000 UTCI had to listen to this over a few days, in bits. High water mark. Beyond belief how powerful this has gotten.
GC
2025-05-03 03:18:03 +0000 UTCI was listening with headphones in the living room and my mom asked at several points if I was ok. The answer is no. I’m not ok.
Samantha Bruce
2025-05-03 02:31:26 +0000 UTCThe ghost interaction happens like a week after the start and they said in a fire side recently that it has only been a few months total time so I'd guess 2-3 months
rokhopper
2025-05-03 01:56:18 +0000 UTCSome kind of Balefire homebrew, yes
Sil
2025-05-03 01:44:39 +0000 UTCI think we can customise the pledge!
Sil
2025-05-03 01:43:46 +0000 UTCAre you sure you can't? I, for one, would like compensation for emotional damages 😒😛
Sil
2025-05-03 01:40:41 +0000 UTCI can only listen when I'm WFH or in the car for this reason. It'd also probably scare the shit out of people if I randomly screamed "NO!" in public
Sil
2025-05-03 01:38:40 +0000 UTCDoes anyone happen to know the in-story timing between the chapter 1 exchange where Suvi refers Ghost to the wizards and the first appearance of the dispelling agent? I’m curious to know the industrial efficiency of the empire’s cruelty. Such a chilling detail!
Matt
2025-05-03 01:25:04 +0000 UTCPretty sure it didn't beat his AC, hence the line about bringing his shield up.
Sam Null
2025-05-03 00:30:35 +0000 UTCThis is all speculation, but I think He has like +4 dexterity and maybe he has stuttered leather which is flavoured as the pauldron and his clothes which would give him 16? Plus the shield, which is 18 but I think the shield might be plus one because it's magic so 19.
Elijah Peters
2025-05-03 00:22:23 +0000 UTCWhat happened when the Dreadnaught hit Eursalon? No damage was given but it sounded like he was hit for some HP.
The Wizard Sound
2025-05-03 00:09:38 +0000 UTCI'm so worried about Eursalon since so many know his name
The Quiet Footpath
2025-05-02 23:57:12 +0000 UTCThank you friends
Witch of Wobbly
2025-05-02 23:56:21 +0000 UTCOh oh OOOHH that’s the scale, that’s the scale of this…okay it’s that level of yeah yeah, nope not okay
Jessiye Davis
2025-05-02 23:56:07 +0000 UTCFor those gearheads among us (including Lou), does anyone know Eursulon’s AC calculation? I thought Caliah’s shield was +3 (for a total of +5), which would mean he either has a breastplate and no Dex, or else some other combo adding up to 4. I thought his AC has been 16 since day 1 (suggesting a paladin’s starting chain mail), even though he’s never described as wearing armor. Has this ever been discussed?
Brendan
2025-05-02 23:43:00 +0000 UTCI just wanted to say this is one of the greatest works of fantasy I've ever encountered. The whole experience. The realism and brutality of war, the internal conflict and struggle of the individual, and the weight of decision accompanied by felt futility in the face of something so immense represents the human experience in such a profound way. Thank you all. The narrative, the collaboration, and the sound design is such artistry. I felt so captivated at the end.
Matthew Schaublin
2025-05-02 23:36:43 +0000 UTCSomeone just dealt 5000 points of damage and the camera barely caught it, I've got to get the hell out of here man.
MyriadNames
2025-05-02 23:22:25 +0000 UTCOtherwise (and including the ending), an absolutely phenomenal episode, gang. Seriously, you are creating such enthralling, immersive story and soundscape - I am transported to another plane of existence when I listen to this. It's wild you put it out as free content. I would 100% purchase the lot as a boxed set and display it on my bookshelf to share with guests and (hopefully) future generations to come, as well as re-listen to again & again.
SapphoDyl
2025-05-02 23:03:49 +0000 UTCUnfortunately Steel fucks incredibly hard 😔🤚🏻 unimaginably powerful woman with a sword got me yet again
Mary Sessions
2025-05-02 22:44:38 +0000 UTCHoly crap guys, I’m dying for part 2 already. Insane cliffhanger Brennan. I held my breathe for so long throughout the episode legit though I would pass out 🤣
Alaziel
2025-05-02 22:43:23 +0000 UTCWHAT A CRUEL PLACE TO STOP!!! 😭😭😭
SapphoDyl
2025-05-02 22:24:30 +0000 UTCJust finished this.....1...is the sound design team doin ok? 2. The fuck is goin on in Brennans head?! 3. How is the rest of the team feelin?....cause I'm pretty sure I had a stroke at the end of this episode.
Justin Smith (Barbarossa Builds, LLC)
2025-05-02 22:22:46 +0000 UTCHere I thought Sinners was an early summer blockbuster and then along comes Ep. 47: “The Battle of Twelve Brooks.” The scope and scale of storytelling is utterly breathtaking. Five talented storytellers (yes, I’m including Taylor) at the top of their craft. And what a cliffhanger! I went from jaw drop to tears from beginning to end. Part II couldn’t come soon enough!!
Sean Case
2025-05-02 22:19:40 +0000 UTCoh my good christ
thia
2025-05-02 22:17:11 +0000 UTCholy fuck, Steel
Jeremy
2025-05-02 22:06:14 +0000 UTCi super loved how clear Brennan makes the "virtuous cycle" between holding power and mobilising resources a lot of the time in d&d, people seem to abstract away the magic economy — the description of the precious metals in the airship at the top of the episode, with its link to spell components and the reminder that costly items (and the implied work/sacrifice) lead to strength ... just masterful, using this part of the storytelling framework that's often left out, to instil in us a sense of awe and horrific grandeur from the first minute. amazing, Brennan i have a question: Suvi was sheltered by her privileged role -- how much of her current shock is a realisation, that her power/comfort/ease has often come at someone else's expense, and the sacrifices have not always been willing?
Olea Plum
2025-05-02 22:05:00 +0000 UTCshaking my head in my hands at the bar rn
Dramble
2025-05-02 22:02:00 +0000 UTC😳🥺😰😍
Trina McDaniel
2025-05-02 21:48:31 +0000 UTCI am only 20 minutes in and I am absolutely stunned. This is incredible. It takes a crew of talented folks who don’t just know how the game works but how to interpret the game and what it can really mean to do this. Fantastic work!
J. Marshall Smith
2025-05-02 21:39:44 +0000 UTCi am experiencing fear and awe like no other fiction before. i am making pasta.
nk
2025-05-02 21:16:08 +0000 UTCVery much felt all this before I have to run a game of my own 😬
Virtual Spaceman
2025-05-02 21:14:29 +0000 UTCWTF WTF WTF WTF WTF WTF WTF WTF WTF WTF AND AGAIN SERIOUSLY WHAT THE FUCK!!!
Virtual Spaceman
2025-05-02 21:13:45 +0000 UTCI had stopped in the middle of an episode of NADDPOD yesterday, so when this episode ended it automatically jumped back into where I had paused. So after "Suvi, what do you do?" the very next thing I heard was Emily Axford saying "I'd like to walk away from what just happened." 🤣
Aaron E
2025-05-02 21:13:04 +0000 UTCI am unwell
icesquirrel
2025-05-02 20:40:01 +0000 UTCHuh. I wonder what Brennan thinks about war... Totally worth waiting a few extra days, this was incredible.
The Wizard Stank
2025-05-02 20:24:32 +0000 UTCEverything is some type of spirit. Even the monsters. Even the monsters who are people.
Ryan
2025-05-02 20:21:06 +0000 UTCI’m gonna post this at the top because some people need a refresher (this is a pay off from some episodes at the beginning of the show): The solvents came from the Glass Coronet wizards they killed, the Wizard Keen and his inferiors. Suvi was also given some at the Citadel, but that also originated from the Glass Coronet. In Chapter 1 they met a very pale half-Spirit little girl named Ghost who was very talented at enchanting objects- she made a candle construct named Flicker. She also had the innate ability because of her half-Spiritness to- rather ironically- disenchant objects by touching them. Suvi gave her a referral to be trained as an Artificer by the Citadel. She later learned that Ghost was not with the Citadel but in a city called Carrow with the Glass Coronet. They just learned that the dispelling agent that the Glass Coronet produces and uses is in fact made of Ghost’s blood.
irisilmaril
2025-05-02 20:13:20 +0000 UTCbrennan said it was a creature, but also even it wasn’t objects and structures still have hit points in DnD
irisilmaril
2025-05-02 20:11:32 +0000 UTCtwo weeks, they said that the three week break was just between the last episode and this one. if there are no more delays, they are going back to their normal schedule now.
irisilmaril
2025-05-02 20:09:48 +0000 UTCThe solvents came from the Glass Coronet wizards they killed, the Wizard Keen and his inferiors. Suvi was also given some at the Citadel, but that also originated from the Glass Coronet. In Chapter 1 they met a very pale half-Spirit little girl named Ghost who was very talented at enchanting objects- she made a candle construct named Flicker. She also had the innate ability because of her half-Spiritness to- rather ironically- disenchant objects by touching them. Suvi gave her a referral to be trained as an Artificer by the Citadel. She later learned that Ghost was not with the Citadel but in a city called Carrow with the Glass Coronet. They just learned that the dispelling agent that the Glass Coronet produces and uses is in fact made of Ghost’s blood.
irisilmaril
2025-05-02 20:06:21 +0000 UTCCan I just say, I hate the meAT/ATs (dreadnoughts)?
Lucas Nguyen
2025-05-02 19:59:26 +0000 UTCYou know, I always wanted to ask 'Brennan, are there dragons in this setting ' but felt like it wouldn't be answered as to not spoil. But I guess I got my fucking answer! Am I correct in thinking that dragon was some type of spirit, and not like one of the 'monsters' like the ones Eursulon fought?
Lars Leemans
2025-05-02 19:57:24 +0000 UTCThe last Dawn of Harmas Raumza
thmengle croopken
2025-05-02 19:29:39 +0000 UTC(((spoiler)))) Ok I have an awful memory, can someone please remind me how and where Suvi got her magic dissolvent vials?? What was the blood she smelled???? THANKS (also incredible episode, as always)
Cyprille-Anne
2025-05-02 19:28:18 +0000 UTCOoooh, I haven't even got around to considering how Ghost might view the "help" received by the gang. It brings me back to Suvi's reaction when Ame questioned whether that was a good idea. A beautiful show don't tell of how people can change over time and how beliefs are molded.
PriscillaG
2025-05-02 19:24:47 +0000 UTCI don't recall what Ghost is and this part of the episode confused me. What's up with the dispelling agent?
Kaisar
2025-05-02 19:11:17 +0000 UTCI get it - I am a total mark for all that this group of humans create… but this is a masterwork -in design - in play- in storytelling and world building- in performance and trust. 10/10 no notes just an unyielding need for more.
Aaron Deyoung
2025-05-02 18:53:09 +0000 UTCHey team, as someone who tends to listen to this podcast in public can we get a “gonna cry hot salty tears” trigger warning for the rest of the campaign? Like I can tell it’s coming and I’d rather not be on the Metro North when it happens 😂😭
Elizabeth U
2025-05-02 18:47:50 +0000 UTCAs if I needed another reason to listen to the season all over again. I am planning to anyway in order to hold me over until Abria,s turn in the big chair.
Wordsmithwizard
2025-05-02 18:33:25 +0000 UTCAlso, it just hit me that all of this is what the Empire/Citadel has done to protect itself and its people (Gauthmai is an invading force). How much further would they go if they were invading Gauthmai and didn’t have “their people” to worry about?
Puppymaster
2025-05-02 18:28:49 +0000 UTCWell because of the namecloaks we know the Citadel knows how to bind true names, but god damn that true name research definitely wasn't wasted. Makes me fear for how many wizards know Eursolon's true name.
Caleb Hager
2025-05-02 18:27:00 +0000 UTCI can't wait to see what happens next! I am at the edge of my seat with popcorn in hand😁
Aidan Lueken
2025-05-02 18:16:09 +0000 UTCI feel like it might be bad/lead to more internal conflict that neither Ame nor Eursalan saw 1) what Steel is capable of, and; 2) what can happen if someone knows your true name. Like, I understand that a lot of Suvi’s fear of Steel is from a familial perspective, but to me, this incident either confirms deep seated fears that Suvi has never actively expressed or contended with or adds a new bunch of reasons why her fear of Steel finding her is a justified, if not for herself, then for her friends.
Puppymaster
2025-05-02 18:09:09 +0000 UTCListening to the Twelve Brooks interlude before this is so devastating. Can't believe Brennan asked each player to describe a thing that would make you fall in love with this town before leveling it.
Lucas Na
2025-05-02 18:06:24 +0000 UTCWild how the WBN crew literally reinvents D&D actual play *and* podcasting with every new episode. Literally coined the phrase "nobody does it like them"
ollyollyoxfordcomma
2025-05-02 18:04:35 +0000 UTCAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHH
Lance Carmack
2025-05-02 18:04:33 +0000 UTCThis is one of the most perfectly crafted shows that I have ever experienced. I am shaking with so many emotions, how in the world is this improvised. So many good moments from non trio characters, Steel, Joren, the guy who was the WESTERN SUN and then died 30 seconds later (the raddest 30 seconds though), just so many good moments
Jaxson Denton
2025-05-02 18:00:54 +0000 UTCI knew I should have waited for the fireside to be out before listening to this
E. S. Keay
2025-05-02 17:58:19 +0000 UTCAhahaha...I get the contention for first place *with* the caveat...Steel's better wearing a "sword belt" 🤣🤣🤣
John Stein
2025-05-02 17:52:05 +0000 UTC1. OMG!!! 2. How many of ya'll finished the EP and then *immediately* started re-listening? 3. Re-listening to the 12 Brooks Interlude after "seeing" the aftermath of World War Wizard. Effink gut punch. It's like the Appalachian version of 1920s Berlin. "Swing HEIL!" 4. Ya'll *really* gonna make us wait three weeks for part two? 😘❤️
John Stein
2025-05-02 17:47:34 +0000 UTCOmg was that epic. Need more ASAP mainline that shit to my viens
Jamar little
2025-05-02 17:38:46 +0000 UTCNot gonna lie, spotify chose to play Cannibal by silversun pickups after this episode and it shockingly fit xD. AMAZING EPISODE! THANK YOU ALL!
WesKane, do the patron names seem a lil obsessed with Shaun's hormones
2025-05-02 17:30:59 +0000 UTCI’ve listened to this three times now and I gotta know that Sword’s stats.
Deborah Kate
2025-05-02 17:28:39 +0000 UTClistening to these at work has rendered me so useless
Benevolent Sea Star
2025-05-02 17:27:44 +0000 UTCI haven't been worth a goddamn at work since starting this episode and I've had one earbud in just listening to silence to try to decompress for an HOUR
Launch
2025-05-02 17:23:32 +0000 UTCNothing in this episode scares me more than the Wizard Steel.
The Wizard Seek
2025-05-02 17:02:42 +0000 UTCWORTH. THE. WAIT. EVERY. GOD. DAMN. TIIIMMMEEEE!!
LuChiChi4
2025-05-02 16:56:29 +0000 UTC"Suvi, what do you do?"
Kyle
2025-05-02 16:53:18 +0000 UTCThe Jumpscate i got at the end of the episode to the start of a mbmbam episode was jarring
Rachel Fink
2025-05-02 16:42:19 +0000 UTCThe way my jaw literally dropped when Eioghorain leaped up the dreadnaught and laid waste to that airship of wizards. A PHYSICAL response! SO EPICCCCC
Katie Kat Artist
2025-05-02 16:31:49 +0000 UTCI think when Suvi was stammering over her words about the staff of the wizard she killed, after it turned out that she recognised him, Eursulon decided that either that he couldn't accept any risk of dual loyalty, or that she wasn't in any condition to fight. He's also very emotional when he says it, but "if what you carry would slow you down, I would leave you here" is just a statement of desire that Suvi then acts on. If she thought she was fine, she could've gone, but she wasn't. 😭
Joseph O'Toole
2025-05-02 16:19:15 +0000 UTCI….think I just came…
Peabodie
2025-05-02 16:00:07 +0000 UTCIt should be showing up on Pocket Casts? It is for me, says it uploaded yesterday like it did elsewhere. (The patreon doesn’t get the public episodes uploaded directly, since they’re available everywhere else, just the patreon exclusives.) hopefully it shows up for you soon!
Joanna S.
2025-05-02 15:57:39 +0000 UTCThat’s what I heard first too!! But realized it was “leaden shoes.”
Joanna S.
2025-05-02 15:56:51 +0000 UTCThe dreadknots are flesh craft, so does that mean the flesh craft itself isn’t sentient and self moving, but there are sorcerers and soldiers aboard them giving it ‘life’ with magic? I got confused in the beginning when the first was destroyed by the 5,000 points of damage dealt from the Epiphany crew
Devon
2025-05-02 15:53:19 +0000 UTCHere I am getting to the episode a little late, at work absolutely stunned so bad I had to fully stop what I was doing and just sit, well done
gramps
2025-05-02 15:48:21 +0000 UTCsteel one of the top 5 milfs of all time. 1. Lois griffin 2. Steel 3. the grandma from a bugs life 5. Carmela Soprano
Val
2025-05-02 15:39:36 +0000 UTCI love a visual/metaphorical contrast in storytelling. Light vs dark, warm vs cool, etc. The organic chaotic horrors of the Gaothmai vs the geometric precise cruelty of the Empire really does it for me. 10/10 visual storytelling
Julia Whitmore
2025-05-02 15:33:33 +0000 UTCOmg it was absolutely worth the wait because this was epic and incredible! Every piece of Brennan’s awe-inspiring descriptions, Lou / Erika / Aabria absolutely slaying it, and the powerful music and sound design. I just want to dive right back in and listen again! CHILLS, MY PEOPLE, CHILLS!
Jenneryy
2025-05-02 15:32:57 +0000 UTCoh. that last scene. okay. cool cool cool.
Val
2025-05-02 15:24:03 +0000 UTCThat's why I only listen to these episodes in my free time with absolutely no distraction. Couldn't do it otherwise.
One Punch Max
2025-05-02 15:23:21 +0000 UTC😭😭😭
Joseph O'Toole
2025-05-02 15:19:08 +0000 UTCIncredible work. The sound design was so perfect and haunting, amazing player choices, just the brilliance of Suvi's thought process through all this, Brennan's descriptions were so detailed and brutal!!! AMAZING
Catertot
2025-05-02 15:19:07 +0000 UTCJust wanna say I totally called it with the dispelling agent being from Ghost. I was screaming for someone to use identify but then having them all find out simultaneously was just perfect.
Joshua Jones
2025-05-02 15:17:35 +0000 UTCI just realized, did he play padmund on critical role to ease us into this chaos? Death of a spirit? Imprisonment of another? The destruction of a place in worship of the Great BullFrog?!
AGENTAPPLES
2025-05-02 15:15:57 +0000 UTCBatshit crazy. Literally insane. What even point out? This whole episode was one jaw-dropping horror after the other, no breaks, no respite. I can not wait for the next episode. And the sound design??? I'll gladly wait everytime if this is the result, because damn its just so good. The silence in the end? Again? Im screaming; everyone involved is so talented
Lillet_ Blue
2025-05-02 15:09:57 +0000 UTCToo things in life are certain. Death and Worlds Beyond Number topping themselves with every episode.
One Punch Max
2025-05-02 15:09:30 +0000 UTCY’all’s sound design is the absolute peak that everyone should aim for in this space. Great moves from all the players showing how they have moved forward but also how they still need to change. Also love all the terrifying monsters that the sorcerers are bringing into this world. The obvious pain and horror they commit upon their own people to make these creatures. And how it doesn’t even remotely matter because the citadel will go farther. They will clean their act up a little more, but they’re going to go deeper and farther and pull out all the stops for this war. Steel is terrifying in a way that is amazing. I can’t wait for Suvis eventual confrontation when she has had more time to process.
The Wizard Syndicate
2025-05-02 14:51:57 +0000 UTCpissing shiting gagging throwing up crying sliding down the wall. GHOST!!!!???? AAAHHHHH
Val
2025-05-02 14:50:56 +0000 UTCHoly fuck, I dont know if this is what Sly saw, but his prophecy came true here. If Eursulon didn't have his shield, then Ame couldn't have done her curse and they would have all died
Sevynn Shaughnessy
2025-05-02 14:47:20 +0000 UTCGood God. Can I just say? My jaw dropped possibly three times this episode, literally, and I felt like someone knocked the breath out of me. That roll by Eursulon. Ghost. The undoing of a name?! I listened to the last 45 minutes on my way to work and now I have no idea how I'm going to function the rest of the day.
Arachne, The Witch of Whispering Webs
2025-05-02 14:45:07 +0000 UTCHate to break it to you father…. But Eioghorain is my dad now.
Sam Shepherd
2025-05-02 14:40:19 +0000 UTCThere's so much I want to say about this episode because the words and emotions and sound design and editing were absolutely phenomenal but the one moment that really wrecked me was the distillation of Ghost's brilliant mind and talents and gifts down into a spell component. That truly broke my heart in the way that storytelling can when done impeccably well.
kaguya_yoru
2025-05-02 14:38:29 +0000 UTCThere’s a moment in this episode that i think perfectly captures how the characters relate to each other: Ame: “We’ll save her. We have to save the children first. We will, it’s okay.” Suvi: “I don’t need to be comforted.” Ame: “That was for me.” Eursulon: “Forward, then.” I just love how each of the characters voices the state of mind that has driven them throughout this arc. The fact that such a small moment can convey so much about them speaks volumes to the love of the players for each other and for their craft. I adore this show.
sylvie
2025-05-02 14:27:50 +0000 UTCTrue name anxiety cranked up to the max. That felt hours long. Shock and very much awe. Wanted to but couldn’t turn my ears away.
Clare L J
2025-05-02 14:24:44 +0000 UTCThose lightning sound effects were incredible. Tragic revelation about ghost, they found her in a bad situation and unintentionally sent her into something even worse. The dreadnoughts are everything I wanted them to be. The epiphany intro was so cool, I imagined it like a black and white recording of aircraft carriers being constructed for WW2, charismatic and patriotic contrasted with the brutality of war. The 5000 damage volley of magic bolts was breathtaking. Brennan sure has a creative mindscape
OogaBooga
2025-05-02 14:20:31 +0000 UTCWait you’re onto something here…
Amelia
2025-05-02 14:12:38 +0000 UTCWhat’s a gradient attack? Is it from exalted?
Rover Bernhard
2025-05-02 14:08:55 +0000 UTCNO OUTRO??? NO AFTERCARE??? HOW DO I LIVE AFTER THIS
thewizardScam
2025-05-02 14:02:41 +0000 UTCSome love to B Mulligan pro DM continuing to make pew pew noises with his mouth
Karen mc donnell
2025-05-02 13:53:57 +0000 UTCI'm speechless. This was art at a whole other level that I didn't know could exist. The sound design and music were incredible. I am truly blown away. Bravo to all of you involved.
Kelly Hauenstein
2025-05-02 13:53:03 +0000 UTCAlmost 19 minutes in and I am in awe at the sound design. This is already my favorite episode so far! Wonderful job by everyone who had a hand in making this so spectacular!!!
Kate Matrishon
2025-05-02 13:41:24 +0000 UTCIt was SO GOOD! I will need to listen to it several more times before the next fireside.
susan tiss
2025-05-02 13:39:12 +0000 UTCI'm only 10 minutes in and I'm completely speechless and horrified. Let's fucking go.
Rachael
2025-05-02 13:36:15 +0000 UTCThe sound design!! Taylor you're killing me here so good
cnidarian casper
2025-05-02 13:32:20 +0000 UTCLol I had the exact same experience, the whiplash!
cnidarian casper
2025-05-02 13:30:20 +0000 UTCJust finished listening holy shit im speechless so worth the wait my god
cnidarian casper
2025-05-02 13:30:00 +0000 UTCWorth the wait!!! ❤️❤️❤️
Big D-Meanor
2025-05-02 13:28:11 +0000 UTCI had forgotten I had revenge by xxxtentacion queued up to play after and let me tell you WHEN THE EPISODE ENDED AND THAT STARTED PLAYING, WOOF
Infernal
2025-05-02 13:19:24 +0000 UTC"Let him choose." OMGGGGG
Monica Briggs
2025-05-02 13:11:39 +0000 UTCLet’s fucking GOOOOOOOO! Is this what delayed gratification feels like? I’ve forgotten in this digital age of fulfillment™️
Warlock Fulltime
2025-05-02 13:08:56 +0000 UTCOMG at the end i just stopped breathing and then class action started i jumped so high in my chair XD
mythos
2025-05-02 13:07:45 +0000 UTCNot looking at other comments but 13min in, hey Brennan, Brennan buddy, what the fuck my good buddy?!? And Taylor, absolutely fucking incredible my guy 💜
ScoutHooligan
2025-05-02 13:05:55 +0000 UTCMayday indeed holy shit
dain saint
2025-05-02 12:46:28 +0000 UTCThat comment Steel makes about grandchildren in the battle has to be the mechanism used to unmake the Great Bullfrog. So either the GB is still around, the Grenough(sp) are dead, or different rules apply to spirits.
The Quiet Footpath
2025-05-02 12:30:26 +0000 UTCI'm excited to listen! Unfortunately neither pocket casts not patreon is giving me the option at the moment. Maybe it will show up in a couple hours. Can't wait!
ludosansfin
2025-05-02 12:19:05 +0000 UTCFor the sound team: good lord that was amazing. I was listening to it in the dark: this is theater of the mind, and theaters are usually dark, and we had 4 performers and sound design that totally illuminated that screen. Once more: good. lord. Outstanding. Maybe I ask this again in the season wrapup, but I want to know more about what musical traditions you were pulling on for Gauthamine war music. The Citadel war music pulled on the fanfares and marches I'm familiar with, which are militaristic and I think European-origin (I don't know that for a fact, it's just the association I make when I hear that are 'Roman fanfare' and 'traditional European march instrumentation'). It oscillated between dire and joyous fanfare this episode. The Gauthamine chants - again, to my ears - tended to stay at a single somber note. I don't mean this as a critique at all - any seemingly odd sound choices in this campaign have been unfailingly sublime in their reasoning - so I just want to know either whether that Gauthamine music conveys that same celebration in a way my ears aren't trained to pick up in a musical tradition I'm not accustomed to, or whether that continuation of the same somber chant is indicative of some cultural aspect of Gauthami.
Manifesting Good Posture
2025-05-02 12:09:33 +0000 UTCI'm about to make 2-3 more Patreon accounts just to pay you guys more. $5 does not cover the art you guys are making.
KinzokuRa
2025-05-02 12:02:32 +0000 UTCIm losing my fucking marbles over this my GOD BRENNAN LEE MULLIGAN THE MAN THAT YOU ARE
Josie
2025-05-02 11:57:51 +0000 UTCThat was the most bonkers anime shit ever. I live for this kind of power fantasy. Steel actually pulled a *teleports behind you* “nothing personal kid” and does some sword jutsu to unmake an entire bloodline. Truly an experience of having an entire movie play through your head with Brennan’s narration and Taylor’s team with the sound design.
Mediocre
2025-05-02 11:55:13 +0000 UTCOh yeah I’ve been worried since we found out about the Grenoe children
Emma Gilson
2025-05-02 11:46:26 +0000 UTCI got it on my feed and just finished it. Although sometimes it takes some time for me and comes up later than typical.
Emma Gilson
2025-05-02 11:45:16 +0000 UTCNot looking at any other comments because I don't want to see spoilers, but will this be on the podcast feed too? I've been a patron since s1 and the pay walled episodes usually hit the rss feed, but this one isn't showing up. Thanks in advance if anybody reads this!
Garrett MacFalda
2025-05-02 11:13:40 +0000 UTCAnd there are seven left?! GOD DAMN!!! crackle crackle
TheWizardSloth
2025-05-02 10:48:52 +0000 UTCThat was epic and I mean that by the truest definition. The sounds and score were worth the wait. The narration and intensity kept me ram rod straight. The horrors of war was terrifying I am so scared and excited for the next one. Thank you.
Adam D.
2025-05-02 10:29:33 +0000 UTC🫂
Madeline Salter
2025-05-02 10:19:37 +0000 UTCAs excited as I am, i've never been so glad for a two week wait. This was actually pretty traumatic
Madeline Salter
2025-05-02 10:17:25 +0000 UTCSteel has Eursulons true name too :((
Madeline Salter
2025-05-02 10:03:17 +0000 UTCNot the power word genocide :((
Madeline Salter
2025-05-02 09:46:53 +0000 UTCYep for this one we need aftercare. Look after yourself today!
Madeline Salter
2025-05-02 09:45:58 +0000 UTCHahaha, I mean her name is Sky and they're IN the sky? I'm hoping/coping that that will somehow be relevant or helpful
Madeline Salter
2025-05-02 09:44:43 +0000 UTCI think he's there the whole time he just doesn't have anything to add conversation wise. They make rolls for him throughout the ep
Madeline Salter
2025-05-02 09:42:33 +0000 UTCTaylor the sound design was extremely epic. The extra time and focus is worth it. Congrats on delivering! I learn how to hear storytelling through your sound design and notice just how much more is delivered. The way you create space in Brennan’s flow of thoughts works! A true work of art painting all our minds. Worth the wait. …I’m genuinely interested to learn more about your process and what are the toughest types of decisions you make. Do you talk through the mapping and the editing with someone? It’s very immersive and more so than with picture. Nobuo Uematsu inspired? I hope you take time to celebrate yourself, Taylor , before working on the next one and bask in the juice of life, cuz bro it seems like you’re in it! Keep going, we’re rooting for you! 🎉🎉🥳🎉🎉
Stefanucci Mozzarella
2025-05-02 09:39:12 +0000 UTCDid Steel just cast the family destroyer spell or did I imagine that
David
2025-05-02 09:34:40 +0000 UTCConsidering the Twelve Brooks ine-shot ended before they reached the castle, and at the time the empire was already kidnapping people, who else is currently SUPER WORRIED for Buckles???
Chantalleke
2025-05-02 09:34:20 +0000 UTCCan't wait for the story time cleanup about the war-stave from the soldiers that drowned in the river
Max
2025-05-02 09:33:18 +0000 UTCTAYLOR! WHERE'S THE CUTE LIL TUNE TO HELP ME PROCESS WHAT JUST HAPPENED! TAYLOR! PLEASE!
Chantalleke
2025-05-02 09:25:07 +0000 UTCSomeone asked Brennan “what if they had power word kill at the Somme?” And he delivered.
Chris
2025-05-02 08:49:07 +0000 UTCYou're right
Elijah Peters
2025-05-02 08:23:33 +0000 UTCI'm pretty sure, Brennan is the only person in the world that could write a classic work of literature first try without drafts.
Elijah Peters
2025-05-02 08:23:01 +0000 UTCThe Wizard Steel, or "What if a hydrogen bomb could think."
Udoka
2025-05-02 08:19:55 +0000 UTCHoly forking shirtballs... I found myself breathless at the end of this one! I can't even...
Whyse Wytch
2025-05-02 08:06:11 +0000 UTCWhere is the Fox?!!!!!!
Elijah Peters
2025-05-02 08:06:00 +0000 UTCOmg y’all did not fuck around. I’m 11 minutes in and I just want to curl up and cry, The entire team has created a nightmare of war. If I was a player during this, I’d just have my PC hunker down and try and wait it out. Terrifying
Demelza Walkden
2025-05-02 07:50:05 +0000 UTCOh my god. So many lines gave me absolute CHILLS. Best commute to work ever!! Good gods I cannot wait for the next episode!!
The Witch of the Well-Struck Flint
2025-05-02 07:44:11 +0000 UTC"Suvi, what do you do?" Uhhhh, what the hell am *I* supposed to do? I can't possibly be expected to go to work tomorrow
EmmaLouLouBean
2025-05-02 07:02:53 +0000 UTCThe kid that was the apprentice of Finley in Port Talon. Half spirit that had a candle golem.
Shreyas Joshi
2025-05-02 06:56:45 +0000 UTCThat's so real 😂I had to lock in and ground myself (but I still finished my joint lmao)
Jasmine A Golphin
2025-05-02 06:52:11 +0000 UTCOoooh, now I have to go and do the equivalent of theorycrafting to speculate on this
Sil
2025-05-02 06:48:41 +0000 UTCYeah this definitely cemented that I wanna play the witch class so so bad
Drew Faber
2025-05-02 06:43:36 +0000 UTCImagine, if you will, a witch's curse that inflicts back on the caster what they cast, three-fold 🤔🤷🏼 what a shame that would be, right?
Sil
2025-05-02 06:40:20 +0000 UTCCould someone refresh my memory on who Ghost is? It’s killing me that she’s barely vaguely familiar to me.
Krissi Carson
2025-05-02 06:40:04 +0000 UTCWHAT. JUST. HAPPENED. I need an IRL support group for this damn show I swear 😭🔥
Amelia
2025-05-02 06:39:06 +0000 UTCwhat
Antareeksh Deb
2025-05-02 06:37:21 +0000 UTCuhhhh what
Antareeksh Deb
2025-05-02 06:37:14 +0000 UTCRETRIBUTIVE CURSE
The Wizard Spicy 🌶️
2025-05-02 06:29:10 +0000 UTCQuestion for Brennan on the fireside: when sculpting a battle of this magnitude in the story, to what extent are you writing plot points vs rolling dice to determine outcomes? Like did you roll for Eioghorain's ripping apart the ship or Steel's unmaking of a lineage? How do you decide these grander scale moments?
Peter Chagnon
2025-05-02 06:24:54 +0000 UTCOne of my friends has been bringing up Ghost a TON like I think the anti-dispelling is ghost why haven't they remembered her and I'm so glad they get vindicated with this ep they're gonna be so excited
tayycro
2025-05-02 06:22:54 +0000 UTChey that was a little bonkers to listen to while high if it’s chill to say that
bails 🌀 witch of the what the fuck
2025-05-02 06:06:01 +0000 UTCMe personally? I'd counterspell Steel's anti-family spell
A Cool Dude
2025-05-02 06:02:07 +0000 UTCThe way Brennen describes magic is transcendent. Steel delineating the geometry of reality and then altering it was ecstasy.
xelamorph
2025-05-02 05:56:10 +0000 UTCI was more like…”damn you” and “nooooo”
The Wizard Sparrow
2025-05-02 05:53:37 +0000 UTCBrennan I hate you so much. I love you though. How could you hurt us like this? Poor Ghost.. horrific war. The tension was "incredible," and I will forever have a new standard for sound design. This is amazing
Faith_InStitches
2025-05-02 05:43:52 +0000 UTC*question for the fireside to everyone * After the question that Brennan ask asks Suvie, Rise Against’s Prayer of the Refugee played on my Spotify, so what is the song the best describes each player/characters perception of the battle of twelve brooks?
Max Myers
2025-05-02 05:38:12 +0000 UTC🔥🔥🔥
The Wizard Sparrow
2025-05-02 05:34:08 +0000 UTCIn other news, war is just so awful man.
Pedro
2025-05-02 05:34:03 +0000 UTCI have no words to describe the level of artistry in this episode, it is genuinely groundbreaking and will go down in history as such. Thank you for sharing it with us.
Pedro
2025-05-02 05:32:37 +0000 UTCI have no words to describe the level of artistry in this episode, it is genuinely groundbreaking and will go down in history as such. Thank you for sharing it with us.
Pedro
2025-05-02 05:32:26 +0000 UTCFinal comment for now, but I just need to know - WHAT spell was that at the end?! Spell cards, please? 🥺🙏🏼 Also... what is Eioghorain's stat block??
Renoku
2025-05-02 05:25:46 +0000 UTCAgree
The Wizard Sparrow
2025-05-02 05:24:23 +0000 UTCAnd can we talk about that goddamn episode description????!
Joanna S.
2025-05-02 05:23:28 +0000 UTCJust wait, that blood dirt be air soon brother, some dreadnaught is STEPPING
Witch of the Remembering Bog
2025-05-02 05:23:20 +0000 UTCPhenomenal job, everyone. I’m reeling. I will be…listening to this again immediately. The gasps I gasped in the last couple minutes especially. Holy shit. I’m Unwell. Gonna be texting my baker friend earlyyyy tomorrow cause she’s listening in the morning.
Joanna S.
2025-05-02 05:21:06 +0000 UTCIf all they did with the extra time preparing this episode was add and remove the end music repeatedly until we got that, that was time well spent.
Luke O'Brien
2025-05-02 05:19:21 +0000 UTCChorus singing... Chefs kiss
Johnathan Arriola
2025-05-02 05:17:03 +0000 UTCShock and Awe, is the continuous theme
The Wizard Sparrow
2025-05-02 05:16:59 +0000 UTCFor question and answers Q&A: What did Taylor use to create the sounds of the Dreadnoughts, they sounded perfectly titanic and baleful.
Blades Dragonic
2025-05-02 05:16:44 +0000 UTCWoah
Johnathan Arriola
2025-05-02 05:16:25 +0000 UTCThis may have been the single greatest episode of any audio narrative storytelling I’ve ever listened to in my entire life. Brennan’s description allowed me to see what was happening and with Taylor’s sound design I could also hear it.
Blades Dragonic
2025-05-02 05:14:03 +0000 UTCCan someone please pick my jaw up from the floor.? This episode was phenomenal. I will need to listen to it a second time. Because I had to listen to it in chunks while I worked, but I cried sobbed cheered, but mostly held my breath through the entire episode. Well worth the wait🦊🔥❤️🤗
The Wizard Sparrow
2025-05-02 05:13:20 +0000 UTCTHE ENDING! I am loving this arc so much. You have all created a masterpiece!!
Ayden
2025-05-02 05:12:33 +0000 UTCWow, just WOW. It felt so real. The ending is this episode was NOT expected. Suvi does have to make big choice again poor thing. Also I can’t wait to play my witch because those tokens will be so useful. Steel is absolutely terrifying. It makes sense why she is so high up in the ranks. I wish she would be on a different side, but she has a family to care for and believes in the system so far 🤷🏻♀️ The wait for the next episode is going to be agonizing, but well worth it. Congrats to Taylor and the team for making this episode truly epic!
Erin R
2025-05-02 05:12:15 +0000 UTCNah kid I hoped you pulled over because fuck this episode is An Influence one cannot be driving under.
Witch of the Remembering Bog
2025-05-02 05:07:26 +0000 UTCYou don't have to picture/imagine it, it's inthe arc 4 art
Kellie O Edwards
2025-05-02 05:02:45 +0000 UTC🫂
Kellie O Edwards
2025-05-02 04:56:15 +0000 UTCLike on the scale of one to genocide.... how ~exactly does this rate?????
Kellie O Edwards
2025-05-02 04:51:08 +0000 UTCThe Wizard, the Witch, and the Wild One: a Dropout Animated Series
DancingCat
2025-05-02 04:50:01 +0000 UTCI really want to know what Eursulon was going for When he said THAT to Suvi... Like what prompted it and what was the response he was hoping for??? What I would give To be a fly on the wall of that internal... choice? 👀👀👀👀
Kellie O Edwards
2025-05-02 04:48:09 +0000 UTCCouldn't let Axford keep that record
DancingCat
2025-05-02 04:46:43 +0000 UTCMinute 25, dude. Stunning
Witch of the Remembering Bog
2025-05-02 04:46:15 +0000 UTCA masterpiece. You all have really made something in its own realm. I can’t think of any piece of media doing what this is doing, episode after episode. There’s so much to applaud here, but I feel like what makes this unique is how clean your storytelling is. Thank you all for bringing your full powers to us with such clarity and care.
Witch of the Remembering Bog
2025-05-02 04:45:35 +0000 UTCBrennan just casually dropping 5,000 points of damage. WHAT THE FUCK IS HAPPENING!!!!????!?
Chappy Hall
2025-05-02 04:38:40 +0000 UTCIn the background, Drowning Pool's "Bodies" plays. The music summons the Great Bullfrog. What happens next?
Sil
2025-05-02 04:35:27 +0000 UTCNow THAT is how you use Balefire.
Cumbia Zookeeper
2025-05-02 04:35:20 +0000 UTCI’ve always been curious as to what exactly make Steel the sword of the Citadel. This was over kill, with three slashes of her blade a whole battle field watched a blood line be plucked from the weave. So happy to get to watch a story unfold that pays off every promise it’s ever made.
Tyler
2025-05-02 04:29:10 +0000 UTCdude i wanted to throw uppppp when they all realized the connection to the dispelling agent. literally sat up in bed in absolute horror!!!
Liz
2025-05-02 04:25:19 +0000 UTCIt’s giving Vaarsuvius from Order of the Stick, except V definitely did their thing on accident and Steel was out for blood. 😂
Liz
2025-05-02 04:23:04 +0000 UTCIM SORRY DID STEEL JUST PERFORM A GRADIENT ATTACK?!
Blades Dragonic
2025-05-02 04:16:19 +0000 UTCRolling the luck checks every round was intense! Brennan, I am continually amazed by your ability to come up with simple mechanics that also create narrative tension. What is your process for coming up with these?
TheWizardGilly
2025-05-02 04:16:02 +0000 UTCYou guys absolutely bodied this episode what the fuck!!!! Goddamn yall popped off
King Rob
2025-05-02 04:12:52 +0000 UTCEioghorain is the fucking coolest
Brandon Carbaugh
2025-05-02 04:08:24 +0000 UTCWHAT WAS THE ATTACK THAT STEEL USED TO KILL THE SORCEROUS HOUSE? In the order of operations, she seems to use a time stop, a wish of some kind, destroys the true name, and stabs him in a way that kills his entire family. WHAT KIND OF DRUGS ARE THE WIZARDS OF THE CITADEL ON?
Sid Richey
2025-05-02 04:08:19 +0000 UTCHoly shit.
Alec Mason Van Dyke
2025-05-02 04:01:35 +0000 UTCholy crap
Sid Richey
2025-05-02 04:00:59 +0000 UTCjesus fucking christ. you guys absolutely killed it and it absolutely killed me.
j
2025-05-02 03:54:47 +0000 UTCThis show is so amazing, I’m fucking dead. Fucking brutal. Fucking beautiful.
Shelby Welby
2025-05-02 03:46:05 +0000 UTCNo like Steel is so hot I can fix her I swear
Danielle
2025-05-02 03:45:28 +0000 UTCFeeling good about my prediction about the interstitial music and sound from Class Action. But ummm... So like in a day Ame has been hit with, grounded and survived an Irulian bolt AND flipped a potential TPK? Me staring into the middle distance: witches are fucking cool.
PriscillaG
2025-05-02 03:36:34 +0000 UTCHoly shit
Natalie Connolly
2025-05-02 03:32:22 +0000 UTCGod this episode got me swinging between emotions—from delight at getting such a rich tapestry of storytelling and sound design, to deep despair at the horrors of war and the fruits of empire, and back again, and again, and again…
Silly Goose
2025-05-02 03:25:56 +0000 UTCIf you've watched MisMag 2 it's giving Sam and Weugan
PriscillaG
2025-05-02 03:25:13 +0000 UTCABSOLUTE CINEMA. Worth the wait. I don’t think I took a breath for the entire episode!! “I’m gonna throw up.” -Lou (or guest) was so real for this one 😂
AM
2025-05-02 03:23:57 +0000 UTCAHHHHHH The imaginative landscape of yalls minds. (Spoilers ahead) Holy shit. Just. The sheer scale and breadth of horror and strife, from nightmares pouring out of the maw of a dreadnaught, down to recognizing the specific wizard you killed when his spine snapped from the force of an explosion. And the SOUND DESIGN was on a whole other freaking level!! The chanting, the sfx of different spells and the dreadnaughts, the background yelling and combat, even just the wolf howl perfectly pitched to sound far away. Taylor, please give yourself and the sound design team a huge pat on the back for this one. It’s truly a work of art.
Silly Goose
2025-05-02 03:22:07 +0000 UTCThat ending??? How dare you all do this to me personally 😭 I have so many conflicting feelings ugh I need the rest of the arc ASAP
Channing Kimble-Brown
2025-05-02 03:18:32 +0000 UTCLMAO
Silly Goose
2025-05-02 03:13:17 +0000 UTCOH TRUE
Silly Goose
2025-05-02 03:09:26 +0000 UTCIt's officially. This story needs thw Vox Machina treatment. Someone start the crowd fund now and call Amazon, Netflix and Hulu
Michael Redd
2025-05-02 03:09:01 +0000 UTCIn the absolute best way possible this episode felt much longer than an hour and a half, I'm going to be processing this one for awhile, can't wait for the fireside!
Karyn Saunders
2025-05-02 03:07:23 +0000 UTCWell, that was worth the wait! But with the cliffhanger, let’s hope the next one comes soon!!
PT MacKim
2025-05-02 03:05:02 +0000 UTCFor publicly available episodes, they don't upload the audio to patreon. Instead you can find it through most podcast apps. It's only the bonus episodes, like the fireside chats, that are uploaded to this platform
TPK_light
2025-05-02 02:58:48 +0000 UTCI have no words only emotions.
Theo Blair
2025-05-02 02:57:58 +0000 UTCYou watch someone who spent 20 years unraveling the mysteries of the universe decapitated so fast you can't your eyes can't comprehend it. Holy hell.
The Wizard Sleepy
2025-05-02 02:57:37 +0000 UTCThis episode is whatever the positive equivalent is of being struck with a bat, thinking that was the hardest the bat was going to hit you, and then being hit harder with the bat over and over again
Gage Herendeen
2025-05-02 02:50:34 +0000 UTCHoly fuck- Brennan Lee Mulligan, the man you are. Taylor goddamn Moore. With tears steaming down my face, you create masterpieces
Mack Whaley
2025-05-02 02:46:39 +0000 UTClmao, I had to stop and think for exactly as long as he did
The Wizard Sardonic
2025-05-02 02:42:45 +0000 UTCHad to set aside a day for this episode, I just listened to it in a dark room and let my imagination fully fill the scenes with all their details. I'd recommend the same. Usually I recommend audio series because you can do things while listening. Today I'm saying "Sit down for this one, your about to experience something on a whole new level"
Austin T.
2025-05-02 02:41:39 +0000 UTCAnyone know why there's nothing for me to play? This has happened a few times for me on Patreon. It says "new episode" and all I find is an image and text. 😞
Sarah Sutton
2025-05-02 02:36:40 +0000 UTCAAAAHHHHHHHHH MAN this Slapped BIBLICALLY
KamasiFitzgerald
2025-05-02 02:35:43 +0000 UTC"you shouldn't have brought so many of your grandchildren here, old man"
KamasiFitzgerald
2025-05-02 02:35:16 +0000 UTCHoly shit. Just, holy shit.
Max Moran
2025-05-02 02:30:22 +0000 UTCMan, screw you. Screw you, Brennan, for making me cry out “not the cheese wheel!” in the middle of the grocery store parking lot. My heart is breaking with every minute and I will be coming back for more.
Maddie Moreland
2025-05-02 02:28:49 +0000 UTCAbsolutely one of the coolest moments of the entire show
Sarah Osgood
2025-05-02 02:27:07 +0000 UTCSame. Shouted “I f-ing knew it!” And scared my cats
Aunty Kristin
2025-05-02 02:22:10 +0000 UTCOhhhhh shit. yeah
Drew Faber
2025-05-02 02:19:43 +0000 UTCBecause there was no outro music my brain just filled it in with "Welcome to the Chungle"
Sarah Osgood
2025-05-02 02:19:42 +0000 UTCSuvi giving away her true name to Silver is looking like a worse and worse call every moment. (but a cool choice from Aabriya & im excited to see how it plays out)
Sarah Osgood
2025-05-02 02:18:35 +0000 UTCI'm so sad I cannot draw because all I want to do right now is send Aabria fanart of the Wizard Shilling bumbling about the Citadel and volunteering in Haverward soup kitchens.
Kyle
2025-05-02 02:17:43 +0000 UTCThe sound design made me feel like I was in mortal danger for the first half. This is a compliment
Sarah Osgood
2025-05-02 02:15:32 +0000 UTCNo joke, I had to stop and go for a walk at one point early on. This is some of the greatest audio storytelling and production that I have ever had the pleasure of experiencing. Take all the time you need you need Three Amigos, but also, I need more now!
The Wizard Shore
2025-05-02 02:09:10 +0000 UTCRare exalted solidarity in a D&D space, but I was catching those vibes too!
Heliks
2025-05-02 02:07:47 +0000 UTCSo, listen. I know she's a villain and this was a horrific loss of life no matter how bad the great houses are. But that was kind of hot. Also, Taylor is a sick, SICK man for not giving us the normal sign-off with the cute little WBN outro theme.
Tera Almond
2025-05-02 02:07:28 +0000 UTCHey Brennan, I know that for the past two Arc Q&As I've just been asking where Ghost is; while I appreciate having an answer, HOW DARE??????
Renoku
2025-05-02 02:05:48 +0000 UTCThe big finish is, to borrow a word, incredible, but for my money the best moment is when Eioghorain outruns the death racing through his own body and emerges from his fist in the form of a serpent. That's some grade-A mythological shapeshifting, and we love to see it.
Kyle
2025-05-02 02:03:03 +0000 UTCYeah. YEAH. I caught that too, and was like, damn. There really is nothing they can do for the wizards that the wizards won't turn into wonder and terror. She's cutting destinies from the tapestry of the stars by the hundred.
Kyle
2025-05-02 02:01:38 +0000 UTCWHAT IN THE JOYOUS FUCK BRENNAN
DaShawn Coleman
2025-05-02 02:00:50 +0000 UTCShe made it from all the kudzu
Emily C
2025-05-02 02:00:42 +0000 UTCGHOST. I think I speak for many of us when I say I’ve never been more upset to be correct!!
CaptLizianthus
2025-05-02 01:59:26 +0000 UTCOh, you know that true name is part of what Suvi stole from the witch of wind and stars!
R. Shawn Abrahams
2025-05-02 01:58:56 +0000 UTCOk so....HOLY COW THAT WAS EPIC!!!!!!!!!!!! I'm going to be thinking about that ending sequence for daaaaaaaaaaaayssss!!!!!!!!
Wordsmithwizard
2025-05-02 01:57:51 +0000 UTCAw, she's not god, she just knows the ancient martial art of removing a man's whole-ass family from the loom of fate by metaphysically testing his name against hers then stabbing him in the chest. She's like god's cute little helper. Be not afraid!
Kyle
2025-05-02 01:57:21 +0000 UTCThere is so, so much I could comment on about this episode, and that ENDINGGGG. But one line that stuck out to me was when Steele was doing her magic and Brennan says that “All the world is mapped out like a map of the stars…” And listen, it could be literally nothing, but if that line is meant to tie back into the Library of Stars from Arc 3. The implications of what they might’ve learned. I will scream NKDKDDNDN (more than I already am)
Icicle Tea
2025-05-02 01:54:01 +0000 UTCHow can podcast so amazingly stressful. White knuckle grip on my steering wheel while I’m listening.
Matt Rose
2025-05-02 01:50:12 +0000 UTCIs it Tuesday yet
Scott Wietrzykowski
2025-05-02 01:46:48 +0000 UTCIt's hilarious, because these poor kids are like level four or five? And we've fully left the scope of canonical D&D with these epic spellcasters. Brennan is stunting like this is Exalted. Eioghorain popping off was straight out of the Full Moon charmset, and Steel's wielding Sidereal Martial Arts against a cocky Twilight who never took Integrity charms. I know he loves to make his players feel small, in this game, but damn. And Taylor! Taylor sells it! The ending was the best, but every second was worth the wait.
Kyle
2025-05-02 01:46:20 +0000 UTC:0
Connor
2025-05-02 01:45:27 +0000 UTCMasterful - even more than usual. Now to try and sleep with that ending visual hanging in my subconscious lol
Jacob King
2025-05-02 01:38:38 +0000 UTCThis fireside is about to GO OFF
Kr115
2025-05-02 01:34:41 +0000 UTCOmg, so worth the wait! I'm just over a half hour in but that reverb on the words in the curse?! Perfection.
Amberdextrous
2025-05-02 01:28:36 +0000 UTCStraight up from the first minutes of this, all these IMPERIAL measurements are doing my head in. I don't throw spaghetti at a wall to measure anything, what is distance in this place!?
Sil
2025-05-02 01:23:55 +0000 UTCAyo so where's the Kickstarter page so that we can get this show animated cuz I need this episode in visual form like I need air to breath
Emily R
2025-05-02 01:22:03 +0000 UTCOh so Steel is basically god… cool cool
Halestorm
2025-05-02 01:19:13 +0000 UTCThe way this man describes battles you know he had BUCKETS of toy army men growing up
Emily R
2025-05-02 01:18:34 +0000 UTCHELLLOOOO 😀
Halestorm
2025-05-02 01:17:32 +0000 UTCHoly fucking shit, this is so god damn incredible. Everyone should put this on their resumes for the rest of their working lives. Incredible
Nora Purdie
2025-05-02 01:15:29 +0000 UTCOk this was worth the wait
KJ2Beast
2025-05-02 01:11:26 +0000 UTCAyo what the fuck Respectfully
Ty6260
2025-05-02 01:10:06 +0000 UTCOkay, that's a really good point. I probably would have lost the ability to be, ya know, *normal* around coworkers....
Bestplin
2025-05-02 01:09:13 +0000 UTCSo that’s what Steel can do with knowing someone’s true name? Holy saints in a parade, this episode slapped so hard. It’s almost 3am here, I’ve been staring at my ceiling for what feels like hours. My head is spinning. An unnameable magic is happening here, one beyond passion, sheer talent, and so so so much hard work. It’s inspired and you all deserve more praise than you already receive. Thank you. From the bottom of my heart, thank you. For sharing this world, these characters and this story with us. Oh my god, we haven’t even gotten to the children yet, AAAAAAAAAAAA
The Wizard Sober
2025-05-02 01:07:23 +0000 UTCI don’t know what got me more devastated: the Callback to the interlude, or the callback to an npc from earlier?
AGENTAPPLES
2025-05-02 01:03:45 +0000 UTCI exclusively listen to wbn as I drive for work. That was noooot possible for this episode. Incredible work
Alyssia
2025-05-02 01:03:06 +0000 UTCSo I’ve just been screaming
The Wizard Spwerm
2025-05-02 01:00:55 +0000 UTCYEAH ID SAY SO
ceeg
2025-05-02 00:58:45 +0000 UTCEpisode 1: The Open Door, 1:08:30 -Suvi: “That’s really deep for a person that hits stuff with a sword for a living.” - Steele: “You are gonna see what I do one day and you’re gonna be so sorry for all the times you made fun of me.”
ceeg
2025-05-02 00:58:39 +0000 UTCI'm 13 minutes in, this is absolutely terrifying in the best possible way. I never imagined how fucking horrifying WWII With Magic would be. Holy shit.
Max Moran
2025-05-02 00:57:23 +0000 UTCMy pins and needles are on pins and needles. Pure cinema. Can't wait for more xoxo
Xanian Jamfalcon
2025-05-02 00:57:03 +0000 UTCLeeets Goooo! I am both so ready and unready for this!
Ryan L.
2025-05-02 00:54:35 +0000 UTCThe wheel of cheese…😭
Zach P.
2025-05-02 00:54:10 +0000 UTCReal quick. What. The. Fuck?!
bitterbaldguy
2025-05-02 00:53:32 +0000 UTC“I always have rope” is an absolute banger
DaphneDawn
2025-05-02 00:52:14 +0000 UTCThis is TMI, no one needs to read this comment, but... If any of y'all observed Aabria's face during Calamity, reacting to Brennan's evil deeds - both enjoying the storytelling and pulling herself back into the actual Calamity - I was kinda pulling same faces for the past 1.5h... this episode is a storytelling masterclass, bringing me back to my younger days of enjoying spectacles of violence and fantasy power trips. But during those combat scenes I was repeatedly pulling myself out of it, cause I've seen too many many real rockets hit, towns ground down to rubble, ravaged like Twelve Brooks was, and people get hit by drones... So yeah, I got to live through the association/dissociation loops that Aabria/Laerryn had
byskyphy
2025-05-02 00:46:24 +0000 UTCmy belly hurds
lichen
2025-05-02 00:46:03 +0000 UTCworth every bit of the wait
Ellis
2025-05-02 00:44:55 +0000 UTCholy shit steel. this episode was well worth the wait it was FANTASTIC !!!!
chey
2025-05-02 00:44:46 +0000 UTCPart 2 Tuesday?
Tonks
2025-05-02 00:44:10 +0000 UTCbrennan: this dreadnaught is a tpk, it is beyond all of you ame: hey, this thing was mean to eursulon. bad dreadnuaght, stay! brennan: shit, I guess that works
The Spirit of Vicious Inspiration
2025-05-02 00:43:49 +0000 UTCHonestly, I can't think of another d&d anything that hit like this narrative telling of an OP massive battle. I'm going to re-listen to this sucker like 8 times.
The Quiet Footpath
2025-05-02 00:40:57 +0000 UTCjust..........holy shit
Ellis
2025-05-02 00:38:53 +0000 UTCSo much cool shit happened in this episode that on re listen I’m still going wtf Brennan
Shreyas Joshi
2025-05-02 00:35:37 +0000 UTCJust finished a second listen and "behold the fruits of empire" hits so much harder now
TPK_light
2025-05-02 00:34:59 +0000 UTCThis just went so hard y'all, I'm nearly speechless.
jbfcorreia
2025-05-02 00:33:07 +0000 UTCI've cried 4 times not even finished
Zakarie Wayman
2025-05-02 00:26:10 +0000 UTCwoah, i think ur on to something here
Alana Turnbull
2025-05-02 00:25:34 +0000 UTCBaller shit right there
The Quiet Footpath
2025-05-02 00:24:58 +0000 UTCNgl, this shit was *wild*
The Quiet Footpath
2025-05-02 00:24:36 +0000 UTCHoly shit
Liu
2025-05-02 00:24:22 +0000 UTCWe're not talking enough about how HOT eioghorain's combo was god DAMN
Frankie B
2025-05-02 00:23:52 +0000 UTCJust finished this jay of LemonG.....contemplating listening before bed tonight or before writing time tomorrow......
Justin Smith (Barbarossa Builds, LLC)
2025-05-02 00:22:09 +0000 UTCI don’t think I’ve ever been so terrified of a character as much as I am of the wizard Steel cause it feels like she’s playing a different game than everyone else cause holy fuck she’s not… that’s not…. You can’t just….???? What did she just DO!!!!!!
danielle
2025-05-02 00:21:44 +0000 UTCSpent the whole episode squealing and stimming good god y'all
Frankie B
2025-05-02 00:19:49 +0000 UTCNo cause respectfully what in the ever loving fuck just happened
danielle
2025-05-02 00:19:22 +0000 UTCI'm fucking deCEASED
Frankie B
2025-05-02 00:17:38 +0000 UTCI'm dead
Frankie B
2025-05-02 00:17:29 +0000 UTCI do believe that might have been the wish spell because what in the world was that
Jack Jones
2025-05-02 00:14:13 +0000 UTCHOLY SHIT LIKE HOOOOLY SHIT BROTHER I-
Jack Jones
2025-05-02 00:13:29 +0000 UTC....nah. nup. I need a break. Take care everyone ❤️
Madeline Salter
2025-05-02 00:11:51 +0000 UTC(affectionate)
the Wizard Silly
2025-05-02 00:08:28 +0000 UTC(affectionate)
the Wizard Silly
2025-05-02 00:08:18 +0000 UTC(affectionate)
the Wizard Silly
2025-05-02 00:08:11 +0000 UTCWHAT THE FUCK
the Wizard Silly
2025-05-02 00:07:54 +0000 UTCwhat the FUCK
the Wizard Silly
2025-05-02 00:07:47 +0000 UTCwhat the fuck
the Wizard Silly
2025-05-02 00:07:41 +0000 UTCI finished the episode. and then had to go back to listen the last 30 min of the show
the Wizard Silly
2025-05-02 00:07:30 +0000 UTCYa’ll I’m scared to listen… like I was hoping everyone is okay, and I am glad they posted, but I don’t know if I am emotionally ready to take on the masterful story telling today.
flyingwriter
2025-05-02 00:05:56 +0000 UTCDid the wizard steel....STEAL HIS NAME??? IS SHE ALSO THE WIZARD STEAL? 🤯
Eliana Schwartz
2025-05-02 00:05:21 +0000 UTCmaybe I'm okay that I didn't listen to this at work
Emily C
2025-05-02 00:05:02 +0000 UTC...how the fuck did she do THAT
Marek Nowak
2025-05-02 00:04:43 +0000 UTCSAME! Holy-
Queen Motoko
2025-05-02 00:04:06 +0000 UTCamazing shit
Alex H.
2025-05-02 00:04:00 +0000 UTCGod
Queen Motoko
2025-05-02 00:03:37 +0000 UTCWowowow those last few minutes really unfolded like a game of chess. A piece moves and you think the game is going one way, but suddenly there’s an opening for your opponent and you watch that piece get taken. Then their growing horror as they realize you made a sacrifice play and take their queen. Incredible.
The Wizard Spring
2025-05-02 00:03:25 +0000 UTCAHHHHHHHHH Echoes of last episode I want him dead I want his whole family dead
Emily C
2025-05-02 00:03:01 +0000 UTC“Leaden shoes.” is one of the hardest lines ever btw
Drew Faber
2025-05-02 00:02:36 +0000 UTCPlease sir... May I have some more
Wizard Soliloquy
2025-05-02 00:01:24 +0000 UTCTaylor you killed it my guy. Also Brennan your brain contains horrors beyond my comprehension.
Shreyas Joshi
2025-05-02 00:00:28 +0000 UTCNo MUSIC, no CREDITS I’m DYINGGGGG
Luckyy
2025-05-01 23:57:56 +0000 UTCthat was some domain expansion ass shit. she carved her name into the sky, did something with his true name? dispelled his bubble, and killed his entire bloodline. she’s level 25 frfr
Wyatt Fons
2025-05-01 23:52:57 +0000 UTCI didn’t notice any issues.
Krissi Carson
2025-05-01 23:50:56 +0000 UTCmy brain is officially broken
ada eze i.
2025-05-01 23:50:12 +0000 UTCGoing to stare at a wall for the rest of the day
Taka Kauri
2025-05-01 23:48:24 +0000 UTCI don’t what I think about Steel’s stance on things, but goddamn! I need a cold shower after this episode!
Krissi Carson
2025-05-01 23:47:46 +0000 UTCLook, if this is what happens if there's a delay in posting, freaking delay because I am SCREAMING in my car on the way home holy CRAP you guys. WHAT
Tessie Lou
2025-05-01 23:46:52 +0000 UTCAt this point Ame just refuses to learn her lesson
The Wizard Sanctum
2025-05-01 23:46:25 +0000 UTC*crying noises* Gang i feel like we need some collective therapy after this one. My brain, blown. What an incredible description of war in a world of militarised magical empires. The mechanics put into play where gripping and established a sense of unparalleled tension. The music is INCREDIBLE. So many incredible story beats. This episode continues to cement my opinion that this is in fact the single best piece of media and story ever spun! p.s. why do the citadel have to be so cool? evil=hot?
TētēKura
2025-05-01 23:43:19 +0000 UTCSteel. *staring at a wall*
Deborah Kate
2025-05-01 23:42:56 +0000 UTCAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
Jake Pinkerton
2025-05-01 23:42:29 +0000 UTCThis episode has made it impossible for my ears to be satisfied by anything else. Superb job doesn't feel like enough
Peyton Rose
2025-05-01 23:42:19 +0000 UTCTaylor please join the next Fireside to talk about the Dreadnought sound design, it’s truly incredible.
JT Gwozdz
2025-05-01 23:40:51 +0000 UTCThere are twentieth level wizards Then there are archmages And then there’s the sword of the fucking citadel (I’m aware that was probably a ritual researched for ages and done by a bunch of wizards at the same time but like STEEL IS SUCH A BADASS) (They run into a wizard who can cast a 9th level spell which implies they’re at least level 17, it’s likely the war effort has encourage power leveling with maybe less known spells so they can field more wizards, we know a lot of Tomori are ninth level spells, so like high level wizards have to be common but I assume a lot of them don’t fully know their stuff)
Teagan Symons
2025-05-01 23:39:00 +0000 UTClol i was just left on the silence for a bit, half waiting for her response half waiting for the closing credits, minutes may have passed
Hedge Mage Banbabbabeebiblioboo
2025-05-01 23:35:50 +0000 UTCThat was *terrifying*
Warren Schnur-Holmes
2025-05-01 23:34:25 +0000 UTCThis is definitely one of those stare straight ahead for a bit episodes
Warren Schnur-Holmes
2025-05-01 23:34:01 +0000 UTC"hey, it's only 12 days until the next one" I mutter over and over to myself, rocking in a fetal position on the floor
The Spirit of Vicious Inspiration
2025-05-01 23:32:39 +0000 UTCI’m I’m I’m I’m I’m I’m LOSING IT worth every second of the delay the sound design was so beautiful and horrible (in a good way) the screech of the flesh constructs UGH INCREDIBLE minor spoilers for end of episode Brennan says Suvi what do you do? As I’m internally freaking the fuck out and then auto play just puts on the welcome to worlds beyond number and it’s so jolly and lovely and was just a complete departure in tone to the emotional turmoil I’m in
Teagan Symons
2025-05-01 23:27:57 +0000 UTCPART ONE? PART ONE? Dude, take a month for the next one, take a year. I don't care, this is quite literally the most amazing story I've seen in years. The difinitive best actual play. I have felt things that real life has not made me feel. The first five minutes of this episode are the best and most effective portrayal of the horrors of war that I have ever seen (heard I guess). Y'all are the peak. The pinnacle. I cannot wait and yet I ABSOLUTELY WILL for the next episode.
The Wizard SMORT
2025-05-01 23:27:12 +0000 UTCWorth the fucking wait!!!!! ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️ Also, look I know Steel is the head of a problematic regime and all that... but I can fix her. That one liner....just cold.
Raquel Blacken
2025-05-01 23:24:55 +0000 UTCI'm defiantly not braver than any of the troops in this episode
AnxiousAmphibian
2025-05-01 23:23:36 +0000 UTCAnyone else think the music and sounds too loud when they r talking?
NightBorne sorcerer of freedom
2025-05-01 23:23:26 +0000 UTCDamn, what an epidsode. The sound design was absolutely breathtaking. The roleplay was so painful in all the right ways. The ending however was illegal and I will be seeking someone to represent me in court for emotional damages (joking but holy shit what a banger of an ep)
Abigail M
2025-05-01 23:22:30 +0000 UTCAGHHHHHH!!!!! AAAASAGGFYEHHEHEHHHHHH!!!!!!🤯
Bestplin
2025-05-01 23:20:50 +0000 UTCThis is what makes me play DnD. The emotions yall have made me feel I aspire to in my home game. Thank you for sharing this amazing story with us I'm actually crying.
jswimmer
2025-05-01 23:20:23 +0000 UTCSTEEL WHAT THE FUCKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKK
Rex Beck
2025-05-01 23:15:20 +0000 UTCI'm literally only twenty five minutes in and I'm already blown away and incredibly grateful for this gift from the team today. it's also SO mindblowing that it has made me... frankly a little upset. not at the crew or episode, but how they're treated on here when things get a lil more time in the oven for the special sauce flavors to get to know each other. genuinely. not to be a keyboard warrior. I almost never comment in spaces like this, but this is deeply important to me: i need everyone who was impatient about this episode to apologize for their attitude right now. yall pay less than a fancy cup of coffee worth of US Dollars per month and LIFECHANGING storytelling and GENRE DEFINING sound fx and scoring come out of it, more than monthly. also the storytelling part could be free if you didn't want to pay for the extras. we're genuinely watching fantasy literature and radio theater history being made before our eyes. go listen to the episode and then tell me with your whole chest that "potentially getting triple postponed sucks" when an episode of your show isn't waiting for you like a breakfast in bed as soon as you wake up. I do my best to remain positive here but genuinely the weaponized entitlement and disappointment is unbecoming and I *insist* that our community here not normalize it. comments like "i need my hit" and "kind of disappointed this is a consistent issue" and "where is it???" are rude. this is a passion project built by incredibly busy professionals. act adult. those are all direct quotes from the last 2.5hrs of comments on the "scuze us for one more quick delay" post. this type of interaction is one thing when it's on the discord. it's still uncouth, but whatever, cast and crew can choose to engage or disengage from that platform whenever. it's DIFFERENT when it's on the platform that directly pays the cast and crew. this is not a space that those who make the show can easily escape from, and it functions as a library for their past work, making browsing through it potentially very uncomfortable if attitudes aren't kept in check. additionally, when long-term subscribers are unnecessarily negative in comments sections, it reflects poorly on the Patreon system as a whole, likely discouraging new members. don't do that. be better. (thanks to all who were patient and kind, yall were solidly in the majority of commenters and your enjoyment of this story continues to bring me a type of community joy that I deeply appreciate.)
Lena
2025-05-01 23:15:15 +0000 UTCDAMN
Witch of the Whispered Word
2025-05-01 23:14:25 +0000 UTCI am not okay after this
Dodo
2025-05-01 23:14:01 +0000 UTC3 minutes in and I’m already yelling at no one in my living room. Holy shit.
The Wizard Shore
2025-05-01 23:13:32 +0000 UTCWtfwtfwtfwtf holy shit steel
TPK_light
2025-05-01 23:03:50 +0000 UTC25:30. i literally just yelled WHAT out loud and had to pause to Get In The Comments.
Lena
2025-05-01 22:59:36 +0000 UTCThey don't link the public episodes, just the bone cone. It should be available on your podcast app of choice
TPK_light
2025-05-01 22:57:08 +0000 UTCWhere is the link???
Faith
2025-05-01 22:55:40 +0000 UTCThis version of quest fever is driving Eursulon HARD
TPK_light
2025-05-01 22:54:59 +0000 UTCI'm undone 🥲
Christopher [CW] Williams
2025-05-01 22:50:03 +0000 UTCHey I'm not well enough to listen I'll be back next week, have fun
YourAnimeDad
2025-05-01 22:48:07 +0000 UTCwizard mom came to cook dinner and I'm scared
Hannah Celeste
2025-05-01 22:48:05 +0000 UTCthe d4s to see how many checks they'll have to make broke me and an involuntary "oh fuck you brennan" came uttering forth lol
The Spirit of Vicious Inspiration
2025-05-01 22:45:23 +0000 UTCBeating my fist from behind the saloon doors in the cafe i am currently working in
Ale
2025-05-01 22:35:42 +0000 UTCI’m only at 33 minutes and I have had to pause several times to collect myself and process what I’ve heard. WBN team, please feel free to take your sweet-ass time with these, any time you need to. It is WELL fucking worth every bit of extra effort.
Drew Faber
2025-05-01 22:34:09 +0000 UTCGhost omfg
TPK_light
2025-05-01 22:33:32 +0000 UTC25 MINUTES IN I HAD TO PAUSE IT AGAIN BECAUSE BRENNAN, WHAT THE FUCK 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭
Renoku
2025-05-01 22:30:25 +0000 UTCI’m so SCARED
Casey Furtado
2025-05-01 22:25:13 +0000 UTCAnyone else having trouble picturing the gargantuan that is "The Epiphany"?
Dream Wizard Kyle Arca
2025-05-01 22:13:33 +0000 UTC14 mins. HOLY F$#$, HOLY F#$#, HOLY F$#$.
Witch of Woe and Tragedy
2025-05-01 22:12:07 +0000 UTC10 minutes in, just now, i had to pause and just audibly screamed "Brennan what the fuck" so that's how this episode is going 😭🙃
Renoku
2025-05-01 22:11:39 +0000 UTCThis series is hands-down my favorite work. Thank you all for the beautiful effort, and thank you community for drawing me to this grand work. ^_^
Gilderat Gol-Drot
2025-05-01 22:10:49 +0000 UTCNah it's me and Lou asking "what?" at the exact same time and tone😭😭 let me strap in!
Jasmine A Golphin
2025-05-01 22:10:09 +0000 UTCGot the notification in line for a concert. Seriously reevaluating my life choices as it will be hours before I can listen to
Peter Crowell
2025-05-01 22:09:58 +0000 UTCTHANK YOUUUUUU ❤️
clafford
2025-05-01 22:06:38 +0000 UTC11 min in: WORTH THE WAIT
The Quiet Footpath
2025-05-01 22:05:26 +0000 UTCSo magnificent
Alethea
2025-05-01 22:05:24 +0000 UTCI keep having to pause and rewind bc my brain is so overwhelmed
Alethea
2025-05-01 22:05:11 +0000 UTCPushing play. Nervous, excited and probably not ready
Taka Kauri
2025-05-01 22:03:28 +0000 UTCHoly fucking shit, Eioghorain
TPK_light
2025-05-01 22:03:25 +0000 UTC8 minutes in, I see you Taylor. Take as much time as you need buddy, this is peak.
Witch of Woe and Tragedy
2025-05-01 22:03:22 +0000 UTCYESSSSSSS!!!!!
Jonathan Dowden
2025-05-01 21:54:26 +0000 UTCYES!
MrDoubleOmeg
2025-05-01 21:52:58 +0000 UTCYes!
Shelby Welby
2025-05-01 21:52:48 +0000 UTCYOOOO
Witch of Wobbly
2025-05-01 21:51:18 +0000 UTC14 minutes in and I am GASPING. My eyes are the size of dinner plates rn!
Ewizabeth Herd
2025-05-01 21:50:27 +0000 UTCPutting this on while sewing up some dice bags for my D&D group. 💚
CJ
2025-05-01 21:50:00 +0000 UTC💪💪💪💪💪
The Quiet Footpath
2025-05-01 21:49:45 +0000 UTCit's up on Simplecast: https://worlds-beyond-number.simplecast.com/episodes/the-battle-of-twelve-brooks-part-one
GC
2025-05-01 21:49:36 +0000 UTCNever mind I got it lol
Mary
2025-05-01 21:47:20 +0000 UTCHaving trouble finding it on Apple Podcasts, might be an issue in my end
Mary
2025-05-01 21:46:59 +0000 UTCIT'S HAPPENING
GC
2025-05-01 21:46:37 +0000 UTCI’m not ready for this
Ellie Hail
2025-05-01 21:46:32 +0000 UTCI got the notification that this had dropped while I was driving home from work and I just started YELLING alone in my car. Let's fucking GOOOOOO!!!
xatlern
2025-05-01 21:45:51 +0000 UTCThanks team! Can't wait to listen
Chris Neal
2025-05-01 21:45:46 +0000 UTCI HEAR THE DRUMS AND WE MARCH ON BLOODY SOIL
Sam Null
2025-05-01 21:45:20 +0000 UTCAHHHH THANK YOU TEAM
Sid Richey
2025-05-01 21:44:56 +0000 UTCThanks so much for all you hard work! Happy workers day everyone <3
Madeline Salter
2025-05-01 21:44:52 +0000 UTCThe episode has commenced!!!! AHHHHHHHHH!!!!!
Wordsmithwizard
2025-05-01 21:43:46 +0000 UTCthat opening for the Epiphany was so damn good, took me totally by surprise lol
The Spirit of Vicious Inspiration
2025-05-01 21:43:08 +0000 UTCSame. I don’t even see a play button on Patreon though
Tonks
2025-05-01 21:42:44 +0000 UTCLink missing for anyone else?
Tonks
2025-05-01 21:42:26 +0000 UTCJust checked my phone for the notification I've been waiting for all day.. literally buzzed in my hand, let's goooooooo
Cian
2025-05-01 21:41:58 +0000 UTCHope you're doing okay Taylor and everyone else dealing with whatever gremlins were trying to slow you down. I'm so excited!
L J
2025-05-01 21:41:41 +0000 UTCThe luck check RIGHT OUT THE GATE??
TPK_light
2025-05-01 21:41:30 +0000 UTCIs it just me… or is it not up on Apple Podcasts?
The Wizard Gesundheit
2025-05-01 21:41:22 +0000 UTC4 mins in and it was already worth every minute of waiting
The Wizard Fae
2025-05-01 21:41:03 +0000 UTCWhy can't I hold all this HYPE!?
Simon Mills
2025-05-01 21:40:22 +0000 UTCHow dare you use that sexy high pass filter radio voice on me swooning
Ale
2025-05-01 21:40:19 +0000 UTCOH MY GOSH !!!!
chey
2025-05-01 21:39:43 +0000 UTCAaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa aaaa
Binkpooki
2025-05-01 21:39:14 +0000 UTCYEAHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!
Crickadeekat
2025-05-01 21:39:02 +0000 UTCI am SHAKING with excitement
Drew Faber
2025-05-01 21:38:56 +0000 UTCFUCKIN AY
cloudy
2025-05-01 21:38:31 +0000 UTCWhere tho?!?!
Ben Warzeski
2025-05-01 21:38:19 +0000 UTCCHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARGE
The Wizard Spontaneous
2025-05-01 21:37:50 +0000 UTCYESSSSS
Udoka
2025-05-01 21:37:49 +0000 UTCoh ye of little faith, i never doubted for a moment
Mia
2025-05-01 21:37:34 +0000 UTCThank you
Witch of Woe and Tragedy
2025-05-01 21:37:31 +0000 UTCFINALLY
Sean Lawrence
2025-05-01 21:37:19 +0000 UTCAAAAAAAAAHHHHAHAHAHAHAHAH
Witch of Woe and Tragedy
2025-05-01 21:37:15 +0000 UTCAAAAHHHHH
Amber Cekander
2025-05-01 21:36:46 +0000 UTCOH HELL YEAH
The Wizard Solace
2025-05-01 21:36:36 +0000 UTCOh fuuuuuuuuudge
Dub LVIII
2025-05-01 21:36:35 +0000 UTCAAAAAAAAARHG IM NOT READY
Lojaan
2025-05-01 21:36:34 +0000 UTCTHERE GOES THE NEIGHBORHOOD. Nobody talk to me for the next 96 minutes.
Wizard Stoic
2025-05-01 21:36:33 +0000 UTC‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️
Samuel Colvin
2025-05-01 21:36:24 +0000 UTCWOOOOOOOOT
Amy English
2025-05-01 21:35:48 +0000 UTCRAAAAAAAGGHHHHHHH
Evan Bartlett
2025-05-01 21:35:41 +0000 UTCI always knew we braver than a troops
Luckyy
2025-05-01 21:35:25 +0000 UTCBeen checking all day. Let's goooo!
Terrell Kennedy
2025-05-01 21:35:25 +0000 UTCFUCK
DaShawn Coleman
2025-05-01 21:35:21 +0000 UTCYessssss
Ruth Kindt
2025-05-01 21:35:20 +0000 UTCYES IVE BEEN REFRESHING ALL DAY IM HYPE
KnockOffGrimReaper
2025-05-01 21:35:18 +0000 UTCIt's here!!!!!!
Andrea Munn
2025-05-01 21:35:14 +0000 UTCIt's here!!!
Thistlefern
2025-05-01 21:35:11 +0000 UTCWOOOOOOOOOO BOY
Joseph O'Toole
2025-05-01 21:35:11 +0000 UTCIT'S HAPPENING
Kalunyx
2025-05-01 21:35:02 +0000 UTCCrying* I’m so excited
BigMomma
2025-05-01 21:35:02 +0000 UTCAaaaaaaah!!
Carter Nason
2025-05-01 21:35:01 +0000 UTCLet’s fuckin gooooooooo
The Wizard Scumbling
2025-05-01 21:34:58 +0000 UTCYAAY
Felix
2025-05-01 21:34:50 +0000 UTCSo ready for this!
Nak Jaw
2025-05-01 21:34:50 +0000 UTCYayyyyy!!!! I can’t wait to listen!
Lo
2025-05-01 21:34:41 +0000 UTCYESSSS
dylan bradley
2025-05-01 21:34:35 +0000 UTCHere I was thinking I missed the drop but I’m right on time..
Rafi
2025-05-01 21:33:51 +0000 UTCSO FUCKINGG HYPED!!!!
Rowan
2025-05-01 21:32:13 +0000 UTCLETS GO
The Wizard Seek
2025-05-01 21:31:57 +0000 UTC*rabid mouth foaming screams*
V33cious
2025-05-01 21:31:44 +0000 UTCSecond!
Worlds Beyond Number
2025-05-01 21:31:11 +0000 UTCOMG ITS HERE
Raquel Albert
2025-05-01 21:31:07 +0000 UTCITS HERE
V33cious
2025-05-01 21:30:50 +0000 UTC
