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Barovia IV #20 Fashion Through the Ages

21 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

A funny thing about faith is you don’t have to be religious to have it. We are told many things when we are growing up, when we are younger, before ...

Barovia IV #19 Strange Bedfellows

14 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

I do not understand how these individuals have survived so long without me. They should be commended. Like when a small child learns to walk. It is so...

Barovia IV #18 The Life and Death of Hecktor the Beautiful

07 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Hecktor Alabaster would die doing what he loved, trying to save someone else and never thinking about himself. Hecktor Alabaster was born on a hard st...

Barovia IV #17 Rites of Travel

29 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

It’s more beautiful than I could ever have imagine. First the stars and now this. A glimpse of the moment when I first saw her. I can see I have pas...

Barovia IV #16 Special Dirt and a Diamond

22 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Little dragon man always so confused. He like sapling bending away from sunlight. A sapling with mouth like howler monkey. And no ears. Think he knows...

Barovia IV #15 Thorough Examination

15 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Int. Gregory Bone’s Orphanage. NightWritten by Pep MandarinPep: please don’t go o brother of minePip: beloved sister, if it was up to me I would s...

Barovia IV #14 Return of the Great Assassin Vine

08 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Here’s a horse, go track that very fast moving carriage. Why yes, it is indeed strange that all the creepy crawlies of Barovia know not to attack th...

Barovia IV #13 The Promise of Delicious Apple Pie

01 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Loud ones make good herald. Voices carry. Strong. Like oak. Didn’t think little dragon man would do that. Only small problem. If need to, should be ...

Barovia IV #12 An Encounter with Human and Elf

25 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Once again I find myself wanting to help and I am yet again without the tools to do so. Moments ago I was prepared to kill these poor souls and now I'...

Barovia IV #11 Bitter Sweet Lullabies

18 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

I do not know why he keeps yelling at me when I bring him back from the brink of dead. It’s not that he is ungrateful, or perhaps he is? I do not th...

Barovia IV #10 Pip and the Brief but Shocking Journey Into Tree Realm

11 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

This one has yet to hear from that one or the other one. Why they so rude? Don't they know this one need to know if they go on perilous journey? If me...

Barovia IV #9 On the Hunt

04 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

On the Hunt Must be quick. Druid power grow stronger. Must fight. Must destroy. Must kill.Editor's note: around the 40 minute mark we switched microph...

Barovia IV #8 Barovian Nice

27 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Well Hecktor has gone and left us to fend for ourselves, great, just perfect. Plus everyone hates me, which I suppose isn't that unusual. What was it ...

Barovia IV #7 A Barovian Sunrise

20 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

I wish it didn't end this way, but just as day gives way to night, the sun has set on this man's life. As your warming rays begin to fade, we look bac...

Barovia IV #6 Broken

13 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

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Barovia IV #5 Kerlova's Love

06 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Okay, it's raining, I'm covered in plants, I've lost count to the amount of times I have been stabbed and I think I can hear someone muttering somethi...

Barovia IV #4 Best Laid Plans of Plants and Wolves

30 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

I will do everything to ensure that My Lady is prot- YOUR LADY? SOMEONE SO DEVINE WOULD NEVER LOOK AT YOU AS ANYTHING OTHER THAN A WORM! A worm!? I am...

Barovia IV #3 Perspectives

23 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Pip continues to attempt to lead this ragtag confederacy in the absence of Hecktor. I wouldn't necessarily say that he's doing a bad job. As that woul...

Barovia IV #2 In Carriage, On Horse and By Foot

16 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

I hope this is not a mistake, I hope this is the right choice. If there's a chance we can end this with no more bloodshed, no matter how small that ch...

Barovia IV #1 A Fist Full of Pawns

09 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Hecktor's got a fancy invitation and bones above the god boy is seriously thinking of saying yes to a seven course dinner with the literal devil himse...

State of Grace #12 Ser Grace Victorious

26 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In the dungeons beneath Fairburn Point Ser Grace, the realms most celebrated adventurer, was forcefully bonded with an entity beyond mortal comprehens...

State of Grace #11 Ser Grace Provoked

19 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In the dungeons beneath Fairburn Point Ser Grace, the realms most celebrated adventurer, was forcefully bonded with an entity beyond mortal comprehens...

State of Grace #10 Ser Grace Displeased

12 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In the dungeons beneath Fairburn Point Ser Grace, the realms most celebrated adventurer, was forcefully bonded with an entity beyond mortal comprehens...

State of Grace #9 Ser Grace Betrayed

05 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In the dungeons beneath Fairburn Point Ser Grace, the realms most celebrated adventurer, was forcefully bonded with an entity beyond mortal comprehens...

State of Grace #8 Ser Grace Alone

28 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In the dungeons beneath Fairburn Point Ser Grace, the realms most celebrated adventurer, was forcefully bonded with an entity beyond mortal comprehens...

State of Grace #7 Ser Grace Interrupted

21 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In the dungeons beneath Fairburn Point Ser Grace, the realms most celebrated adventurer, was forcefully bonded with an entity beyond mortal comprehens...

State of Grace #6 Ser Grace Imprisoned

14 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In the dungeons beneath Fairburn Point Ser Grace, the realms most celebrated adventurer, was forcefully bonded with an entity beyond mortal comprehens...

State of Grace #5 Ser Grace Impeded

07 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In the dungeons beneath Fairburn Point Ser Grace, the realms most celebrated adventurer, was forcefully bonded with an entity beyond mortal comprehens...

State of Grace #4 Ser Grace Remorseless

31 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In the dungeons beneath Fairburn Point Ser Grace, the realms most celebrated adventurer, was forcefully bonded with an entity beyond mortal comprehens...

State of Grace #3 Ser Grace Abiding

24 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In the dungeons beneath Fairburn Point Ser Grace, the realms most celebrated adventurer, was forcefully bonded with an entity beyond mortal comprehens...

State of Grace #2 Ser Grace Inquisitive

17 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In the dungeons beneath Fairburn Point Ser Grace, the realms most celebrated adventurer, was forcefully bonded with an entity beyond mortal comprehens...

State of Grace #1 Ser Grace Distracted

10 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In the dungeons beneath Fairburn Point Ser Grace, the realms most celebrated adventurer, was forcefully bonded with an entity beyond mortal comprehens...

Jarren’s Outpost: EE #14 Sacrifice

26 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

The day is won. The dragon Damien Eaton slain. the city returned to its familiar state of controlled chaos. But at what cost? Perrwinkle O'Rourke is d...

Jarren’s Outpost: EE #13 Battle of the Fiveish Armies

19 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In the end it comes to this. The city of Jarren's Outpost at war with itself. Sabers fighting orcs, ghosts and their tigers fighting town guard, and a...

Jarren’s Outpost: EE #12 Greaseboy

12 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In the face of war what is the price of peace? How do you avoid the mistakes of your predecessor? Can there truly be peace with no bloodshed? On the e...

Jarren’s Outpost: EE #11 Zone of Truth

05 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In the guardhouse Father Maroni, secret leader of the blood cult, is forced to reveal his true form, a wirithing deadly mass of blood and tentacles. P...

Jarren’s Development Blog #6 – How Mean is Too Mean?

04 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Jackson, Adam and Zammit are here to talk about threading the needle when making a game where we want you to be mean to your friends. Also we got fund...

Jarren’s Outpost: EE #10 Ave Maria

29 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Chaos spills crimson across the streets of Jarren's Outpost. Missing family members, riots in the streets, gang warfare. And in the middle of it all o...

Jarren’s Outpost: EE #9 Escalation

22 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

The city is at war. The halfling gang war has snowballed into a deadly city wide conflict. Old factions laid dormant crawl from their hiding places, n...

Jarren’s Outpost: EE #8 The Two Wives of Perriwinkle O'Rourke

15 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

The assault on the Surefoot Warehouse is fully under way. After barely surviving the trap filled dungeon that was the warehouse, Peri and Leo face up ...

Jarren’s Development Blog #5 – Expansions

15 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Jackson and Zammit are here to talk about expanding the game! We go over some terrible ideas we had and re-purposing old ideas into brand new concepts...

Jarren’s Outpost: EE #7 Warehouses

08 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

After many trials and tribulations our heroes finally reconvence and immediately start trying to kill each other. A riot in the midst of an assault on...

Jarren’s Outpost: EE #6 No One Messes with Family

01 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Once again the weapon slips from our hero's grasp at the last second, this time falling into the hands of the nefarious and deadly Surefoot Family. Wh...

Jarren's Development Blog #4 - Gameplay

23 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

We sat down to play a 3 player game of Jarren's Outpost and then loudly talked over it to help give you an idea of how this game plays! It's basically...

Jarren’s Outpost: EE #5 The Vault

22 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Against all odds the plan has worked. Perri, Piss, and Leo have made their way into Eaton's keep and up to the vault. Leo attempts to convince Perriwi...

Jarren’s Outpost: EE #4 O'Rourke's Eleven

15 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

The plan is simple: convince every single faction that seeks the weapon to attack the keep at once and amidst the chaos sneak into Damien Eaton's stro...

Jarren's Development Blog #3 - The End Game

15 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

This week Jackson and Zammit talk about a much maligned aspect of board game design: The End Game aka how do you make the last round not boring aka I ...

Jarren’s Outpost: EE #3 Debts

08 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Well Damien Eaton has the weapon, and on the homefront things are looking no better. The halfling families have picked this moment to consolidate thei...

Jarren's Development Blog #2 - Adapting Characters

08 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

This week Adam, Jackson and Zammit talk about adapting the characters from the campaign of Jarren's Outpost into board game characters. All the misste...

Jarren’s Outpost: EE #2 The Dragon

01 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Conflict at the city docks! Orc tents besieged by gnomish rifle fire! The war for the city continues to rage and amidst the violence Leo, Greg, and Pe...

Jarren's Development Blog #1 - What the hell is it?

31 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

We've been tooling away at this board game for a long time and we thought it might be smart to actually tell you about it! Over the next 14 weeks join...

Jarren's Outpost: EE #1 For Love For Life For Me

25 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

The city of Jarren's Outpost is in turmoil. Militias roam the streets, militant religious forces lay siege to the cities spiritual soul and from the s...

D&D is for Nerds Channel Update

21 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

A lot has happened since we first decided to re-tackle Barovia. And while the next campaign to hit your ears would normally have been the (maybe??) la...

Return to Grace #9 Daughter of Mothers

07 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Sign up to the pre-launch of the Jarren's Outpost Board Game on Kickstarter and keep up to date by heading to jarrensoutpost.com or checking out all t...

Return to Grace #8 Horns

30 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

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Return to Grace #7 Blood of Grace

23 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

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Return to Grace #6 Dragon

16 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

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Return to Grace #5 Hero and the Damsel

09 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Sign up to the pre-launch of the Jarren's Outpost Board Game on Kickstarter and keep up to date by heading to jarrensoutpost.com or checking out all t...

Return to Grace #4 Trophies

02 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Sign up to the pre-launch of the Jarren's Outpost Board Game on Kickstarter and keep up to date by heading to jarrensoutpost.com or checking out all t...

Return to Grace #3 You Got the Cat

26 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Sign up to the pre-launch of the Jarren's Outpost Board Game on Kickstarter and keep up to date by heading to jarrensoutpost.com or checking out all t...

Return to Grace #2 The Eye of Hate

19 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Sign up to the pre-launch of the Jarren's Outpost Board Game on Kickstarter and keep up to date by heading to jarrensoutpost.com or checking out all t...

Return to Grace #1 Mentopa

12 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Sign up to the pre-launch of the Jarren's Outpost Board Game on Kickstarter and keep up to date by heading to jarrensoutpost.com or checking out all t...

Return to Grace Trailer

05 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Return to Grace, Tieffany and Pop are back. Starts next weekKeep up to date with the Jarren's Outpost Board Game by heading to jarrensoutpost.com or c...

Barovia III #31 Real or Not Finale (Season Finale)

07 Sep 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Sign up to the pre-launch of the Jarren's Outpost Board Game on Kickstarter and keep up to date by heading to jarrensoutpost.com or checking out all t...

Barovia III #30 May the Sun Never Set

31 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Sign up to the pre-launch of the Jarren's Outpost Board Game on Kickstarter and keep up to date by heading to jarrensoutpost.com or checking out all t...

Barovia III #29 Dragonsbane

24 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

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Barovia III #28 The Usefulness of An Amoral Man

17 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Sign up to the pre-launch of the Jarren's Outpost Board Game on Kickstarter and keep up to date by heading to jarrensoutpost.com or checking out all t...

Barovia III #27 The Time Between Two Storms

10 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Sign up to the pre-launch of the Jarren's Outpost Board Game on Kickstarter and keep up to date by heading to jarrensoutpost.com or checking out all t...

Barovia III #26 A Busy Room

03 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Sign up to the pre-launch of the Jarren's Outpost Board Game on Kickstarter and keep up to date by heading to jarrensoutpost.com or checking out all t...

Barovia III #25 Oh, Hecktor

27 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Sign up to the pre-launch of the Jarren's Outpost Board Game on Kickstarter and keep up to date by heading to jarrensoutpost.com or checking out all t...

Barovia III #24 Belief, Lies & Tea

20 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

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Barovia III #23 A Damaged Arrow

13 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

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Barovia III #22 Negotiations

06 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

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Barovia III #21 The Dragonborn Who Kicked the Puppet's Nest

29 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

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Vampire Infested Barovia III #20 The Quick Way Down

22 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

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Jarren's Outpost: The Board Game Kickstarter Announcement

17 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Zammit, Jackson and Adam have been hard at work making a board game based on the D&D is for Nerds campaign Jarren's Outpost. Click here ...