Side Passages

The podcast about gaming and being a geek by two middle aged geek dads.

Side Passages is a leisure podcast hosted by Unknown Host, with 149 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80.

Unknown Host hosts Side Passages, a leisure show with 149 episodes published.

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  Episode #3

  Creating a character for Dungeon Crawler Carl TTRPG (S6E3)

  Sep 27, 202647 minS6

  Join us as we create Jake Skillman, our first character for the Dungeon Crawler Carl tabletop RPG. He's an former college baseball player, working at a big box store, and trying to figure out what to do with his life. Until aliens show up, wreck the Earth, and tempt millions of people into a world-wide dungeon crawl. Now he's just trying to survive in an environment that's wants to kill him for the entertainment of trillions.

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  Episode #2

  Should you go to GenCon? (S6E2)

  Sep 14, 202636 minS6

  Should you go to Gen Con? We’re talking about our experience at GenCon 2026 so you can decide for yourself. And be “our experience”, we mean David’s experience, because he’s the one who went.

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  8 Killer Ideas from the Dungeon Crawler Carl RPG (S6E1)

  Sep 13, 202621 minS6

  The aliens have arrived. Every building in the world has collapsed. And now we’re all trapped in a world-wide dungeon, trying to fight our way to the 18th floor to save the world. On this episode of Side Passages, we’re looting our eight favorite concepts from the Dungeon Crawler Carl Starter Set. The PDFs for the starter set were released to backers in late August 2026. The print version of the starter set and the core rulebook are expected to ship in late fall. We took a look at the starter set. Here are our eight killer concepts from the game.

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  Episode #20

  Summer Reading List 2026 (S5E20)

  Aug 6, 202633 minS5

  It’s summertime, which means it's time for our annual summer reading list! Featured books include Veil by Jonathan Jans, Of Monsters and Mainframes by Barbara Truelove, Dungeon Crawler Carl Matt Deniman, God Emperor of Dune by Frank Herbert, and the Great Book of Amber by Roger Zelazny.

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  Episode #19

  d4 Underground Hazards for Shadowdark (S5E19)

  Jul 11, 202622 minS5

  We return to Shadowdark environmental threats by delving deeply into underground hazards. Among the dangers we discuss are collapsing tunnels, fungal forests, and the fun-but-dangerous Goonies-style water slides. Inspiration for these threats comes from Ken's Mörka Norden campaign, which features a Viking-inspired alternative universe ... and a trek underground to explore the "Deep Crawl" in search of the nefarious Rat King.

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