Mad Dungeon – Details, episodes & analysis

This week’s guest is Brigitte Winter of Scryptid Games. We talk Assemblage, GM-less, gamescience-inspired eco-fantasy TTRPG, Against the Gloom and The Goodest Girls, her sequel to Psychic Trash Detectives. 

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MD 412 - The Fluffy Detective w/ Brigitte Winter

The Fluffy Detective (TFD) was exiled from a heavenly realm to make the world a better place by solving mysteries. They can return home once they solve their final mystery.

TFD wears a classic noir trench coat that’s filled with adorable, cuddling critters that are the bodiless spirits of mysteries that need to be solved. Their power increases based on the amount of unsolved mysteries in the coat.

TFD’s furry face can shift into any of the faces associated with the mysteries in their coat. TFD gains some of that spirit’s memories, mannerisms, and helps them blend into different situations. Strange music plays while the face transformation takes place. Photos of TFD come out blurry, and they have the power to make others not remember them if they wish.

Art: Tiger Wizard  Words: Steve Albertson

Story by: Andrew Bellury, Steve Albertson, Brigitte Winter

ANNOUNCEMENTS

Dirty 20 - Charity TTRPG Event at Titmouse Animation Studios (Burbank). Dragon Warrior (Steve Albertson) is running games all day in Los Angeles on Jan. 31, 2026 from 9am-11pm: 

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THE MEGA DUNGEON MEN EP: Our TTRPG fantasy meets hip hop album, The Mega Dungeon Men EP is available on all streaming platforms.

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Thanks for listening to Season Four of the Epic Levels Mad Dungeon podcast. You can support us via Patreon and get nerd merch HERE

Mad Dungeon is hosted by Andrew Bellury, Steve Albertson and produced by Zach Cowan.

Music by Epic Levels and beat by Jay Domingo.

© 2025 Epic Levels. All characters in our adventures–even those based on real people–are entirely fictional.

This week’s guest is Joey Royale of Get Haunted Industries. We talk Weird Heroes of Public Access (WHPA), Ooze Nun for Mothership (with art from Tiger Wizard), Ninja City and his new adventure Resort to Violence, Sewer Rats (TTRPG collective) and the Joey Royale’s Pizza Party, and Joey and Tiger Wizard’s adventure Tails of the Night Market is part of Mausritter Month that’s happening all of November 2025 on Backerkit.

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MD 411 - The Candleman w/ Joey Royale 

The Candleman appears when the darkness surrounds you and you’re in need of a candle. He’s a waxy fella with a beeswaxed mustache and slicked back hair. He has a ten-foot aura of coldness that surrounds him. His weakness is his susceptibility to melt when near a natural heat source. Half of his face is melted from a previous incident.The Candleman sells mundane and magick candles from the shadows.

Cursed Candles: Wise Wick: Green candle. When lit, it causes underbrush to grow around you. Moon Blossom: Purple candle. When lit, it causes an illusionary night. Bubble Buddy: White candle. When lit, a very niche assistant spokesperson is summoned. Cinnamonster & Spice: Red candle. When lit, it summons a horrible netherbeast to do your bidding. The Glowworm: Neon yellow. When lit, it grows into a long, twisting rope of wax that opens up a portal / tunnel. Candle ‘O Death: Black candle. When lit, kills everyone but the candle-lighter within a ten foot radius (save or die).

Art: Tiger Wizard  Words: Steve Albertson

Story by: Andrew Bellury, Steve Albertson, Joey Royale

ANNOUNCEMENTS

Tails From the Night Market: Tiger Wizard’s project for Mausritter Month is live now

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Music by Epic Levels and beat by Jay Domingo.

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This week’s guest is Andrew Kolb. We talk about his latest Role-Playing Setting of Wonderland (dungeon crawl) where he pulls from the surreal and silly collage art of people like Terry Gilliam. We talk about how all the Lewis Carroll characters are agro with Alice, and making their stat blocks and special moves (inspired by his love of Chrono Trigger). The locations as topsy-turvy geometric block shapes, and building out their themes.

We also discuss his brightly illustrated Mab Graves’ Drawlloween challenge books Booburgh and Necronomicorp.

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Pizza Queen

Art: Tiger Wizard  Words: Steve Albertson

Story by: Andrew Bellury, Steve Albertson, Andrew Kolb

Pizza Queen is a large, blobby, alien xeno professional wrestler who’s made entirely out of pizza. She has a second face on her torso that fires out a hot pizza pie that causes fire and bludgeoning damage. That pizza then stands up as one of the three minions (see below).

Pizza minion wrestling warriors:

1) Pepperoni & Dynamite Pie: Explodes when it hits you causing 10 feet of splash damage. Becomes an animated pizza wrestler with a spicy attitude and has the move “The TNT Stunner.”

2) Laser-Mushrooms Pie: Fires like a chakram weapon with a mushroom-powered laser edge. If hit, there’s a 10% chance to lose 1d4 fingers. It becomes an animated pizza yogi that strikes with gooey, stretching appendages.

3) Hawaiian Pie: When hit, this pineapple and ham pizza charms or repulses the target with fear, depending on their feelings about Hawaiian pizza. It becomes animate and performs a hypno-hula-dance. It will put a molten cheese lei around the neck of those under its thrall, or a burnt-tongue kiss that’ll burn the roof of your mouth.   

ANNOUNCEMENTS

• Dungeon Cats: Tiger Wizard’s Ennie nominated, rules-lite TTRPG where you play feline adventurers is now available at Exalted Funeral.
• THE MEGA DUNGEON MEN EP: Our TTRPG fantasy meets hip hop album, The Mega Dungeon Men EP is now available on all streaming platforms.

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Thanks for listening to Season Four of the Epic Levels Mad Dungeon podcast. You can support us via Patreon. Get nerd merch and stay up to date with socials: HERE

Mad Dungeon is hosted by Andrew Bellury, Steve Albertson and produced by Zach Cowan.

Music by Epic Levels and beat by Jay Domingo.

© 2025 Epic Levels. All characters in our adventures–even those based on real people–are entirely fictional.

Andrew & Steve adventured up to Gamehole Con in Madison, Wis. where they got to mingle with past guests Alyssa Faden, Ed Greenwood, Luke Gygax, Tim Kask, Ginny Loveday & Levi Combs who they wined and dined with until he killed Andrew in his Glimmering Crypt of the Ioun King adventure.

Out on the town they ran into Gamehole Con main man Alex Kammer, Rick Meints & Jeff Richard of Chaosium, and Mike Merles of WotC, where they talked Magic: The Gathering, how they playtested during covid and his love of their new Warhammer 40K commander set.

They played in Stefan Pokorny's (Dwarven Forge) AD&D, 25-person bloodbath where Steve got eaten by a plant in the first five minutes and Andrew survived to fight another day.

They played in a Charlie Brown meets Cthulhu D&D 5E game. Got some quality time with Zac Goins of World of Game Design (WoGD), and played in their D&D 5E game of Mayan Epics: The Wrath against the Aether Drill.

They stopped by Noble Knight Games on their way out of town and saw Wizards of the Coasters and the original art of Erol Otus' Deities & Demigods cover.

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This episode is sponsored by Exalted Funeral, and we talk about their new releases – Screams Amongst the Stars, The Dead are Coming and Running out of Time by Diogo Nogueira of Old Skull Publishing. These terrifying titles will be part of Exalted Funeral's Halloween sale beginning on Oct. 26, through Oct. 31.

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Epic Levels are releasing Hole of Horror, a postcard-sized mini-adventure written and illustrated by our own Tiger Wizard, where you take on famous slashers, cinema's scariest villains and one horrible hole. Starting on Oct. 19th through Oct. 31st this artifact can be added for free to any order at Exalted Funeral, or we'll put a copy in your hand if you can find us at Gamehole Con 2022. Patrons will get one in the mail!

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We bring on our pal Diogo Nogueira of Old Skull Publishing to talk about his upcoming releases, but first we talk about what we've been playing.

Diogo has been pitting his Primal Quest players against Jurassic terminators and playtesting his car combat business card game called CAR[D] BATTLES.

Rob continues to level up in WoW Classic and leveling up in being a parent.

Andrew & Steve went up to Heaven in their D&D 5E game and answered beauty pageant questions to earn godly boons and decide whether they wanted to stay in the afterlife or go back to the material plane to save the world.

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This episode is sponsored by Exalted Funeral, and we talk about their new releases – Screams Amongst the Stars, The Dead are Coming and Running out of Time by Diogo Nogueira of Old Skull Publishing. These terrifying titles will be part of Exalted Funeral's Halloween sale beginning on Oct. 26, through Oct. 31.

Follow Diogo: Website, Reddit, Instagram, Facebook

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Epic Levels are releasing Hole of Horror, a postcard-sized mini-adventure written and illustrated by our own Tiger Wizard, where you take on famous slashers, cinema's scariest villains and one horrible hole. Starting on Oct. 19th through Oct. 31st this artifact can be added for free to any order at Exalted Funeral, or we'll put a copy in your hand if you can find us at Gamehole Con 2022. Patrons will get one in the mail!

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The Epic Levels Mad Dungeon podcast is hosted by Andrew Bellury, Rob Bellury & Steve Albertson.

Produced by Zach Cowan.

Theme song by Epic Levels and beat by Inner Resting AKA Mason Grant who also makes tabletop games that you can purchase at Gamma Wave Games.

© 2022 Epic Levels. All characters in this adventure–even those based on real people–are entirely fictional.

Rob relives his WoW dreams as they grind out levels in World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King. 

Andrew descended into Limbo to save his comrades in his Dungeons & Dragons 5E game

Steve played with electricity and water in his fishy Electric Bastionland (by Chris McDowall) adventure as he fought octo-sharks as he plays through the Isle of the Plangent Mage (Donn Stroud).  So many delicious oysters and clams around horrible sea centipedes.

News: We talk with Alex Kammer, founder of Gamehole Con (Oct. 20-23) and his upcoming adventure "The End of Everything" by Frog God Games.

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Magic Item: Gjom - the hard gelatin mix that is immovable, just add water and cool. Whatever you put it on is impervious for 30 minutes.

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This episode is sponsored by Exalted Funeral, and we talk about their new release – BESTIARY by Ben Jones and Jake Milner - Feed the Tongue or it will forever tell lies about you... BESTIARY is a book of monsters for MÖRK BORG or any other tabletop RPG. It is chock full of wild monstrosities, horrors, myths, and tall tales from the swamps, cities, and frozen wastes. From the Iron Tongue to the Voringen Wyrm, these twisted things are here to confront and terrify your players as they struggle to survive in the end of the world.

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Theme song by Epic Levels and beat by Inner Resting AKA Mason Grant who also makes tabletop games that you can purchase at Gamma Wave Games.

© 2022 Epic Levels. All characters in this adventure–even those based on real people–are entirely fictional.

Rob is still galivanting around the globe so we brought in a ringer, show favorite Andrew Kolb. He talks about his anticipation for his physical cartridge of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Shredder's Revenge, and we talk about which turtle we most identify with.

Andrew drafted the new Magic: The Gathering set Dominaria, and dominated the competition.

Steve was battling mind flayers and hunting down the mother brain in his D&D 5E game.

News: We talk about the brand new OZ: A Fantasy Role-Playing Setting with its author Andrew Kolb, creator of Neverland.

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This episode is sponsored by Exalted Funeral, and we talk about their new release – HELM. You are no hero. You are a mercenary, a soldier of fortune, a sellsword. You are a Man-at-arms. HELM is a role-playing game inspired by dark fantasy and sword and sorcery fiction typically set in worlds resembling that of our own world’s Middle Ages (5th—15th century).

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The Epic Levels Mad Dungeon podcast is hosted by Andrew Bellury, Rob Bellury & Steve Albertson.

Produced by Zach Cowan.

Theme song by Epic Levels and beat by Inner Resting AKA Mason Grant who also makes tabletop games that you can purchase at Gamma Wave Games.

© 2022 Epic Levels. All characters in this adventure–even those based on real people–are entirely fictional.

This week’s guest is Erol Otus. We talk about his cover for the Old School Essentials Box Set, his Dying Earth adventure from the DCC Kickstarter. He's doing lots of pencil sketches for Magic the Gathering's Forgotten Realms set. We talk about some of Dragon Warrior's favorite art from Alma Mater RPG (1982), and his time as a staff artist at TSR and his time in Lake Geneva. We talk about his painting process these days, and how he's been listening to Goldfrapp, “Tiptoe” and XTC “English Settlement”

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This episode sponsored by Exalted Funeral, and we talk about their new release - Forbidden Psalm: They Came from the Necropolis, the latest mini-expansion for the Forbidden Psalm skirmish miniatures game, is chock-full of help and horror for those willing to part with enough dosh.

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Thanks for listening to the Epic Levels Mad Dungeon podcast, where D&D hip hop group Epic Levels and a guest create a system-neutral, playable one-page adventure map using improv, comedy, and lifetimes wasted on roleplaying games.

Let us know if you run this or any of our other adventures and use the hashtag: #maddungeon

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The Epic Levels Mad Dungeon podcast is hosted by Andrew Bellury, Rob Bellury & Steve Albertson, and produced by Zach Cowan.

Theme song by Epic Levels and beat by Inner Resting AKA Mason Grant who also makes tabletop games that you can purchase at Gamma Wave Games.

© 2022 Epic Levels. All characters in this adventure–even those based on real people–are entirely fictional.

We can't get enough Tolkien this week. Rob is off shooting a film somewhere so producer Zach hops on to talk about Middle Earth: Shadow of Mordor and how he scored a copy of Klingon Empire core rulebook for the Star Trek Adventures Roleplaying Game. 

Andrew explores high-tech miniture golf at Atlanta's Puttshack, and gained two levels in his D&D 5E game for Blüdhoof, his centaur fighter.

Steve talks about his morning ritual of playing Clash Royale, the mobile game he's played the longest

News: We discuss Free League Publishing's The One Ring™: Ruins of the Lost Realm more as an excuse to talk about how much we're loving the The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power series.

Look out for next weeks episode with all time great artist Erol Otis... soon to be most famous for our collaborative adventure Song of the Shriekfrapp!

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The Epic Levels Mad Dungeon podcast is hosted by Andrew Bellury, Rob Bellury & Steve Albertson.

Produced by Zach Cowan.

Theme song by Epic Levels and beat by Inner Resting AKA Mason Grant who also makes tabletop games that you can purchase at Gamma Wave Games.

© 2022 Epic Levels. All characters in this adventure–even those based on real people–are entirely fictional.

This week we fight for wartime pizza and create the cheese-o-licious magic items that'll save us all!

World of Warcraft Classic, Wrath of the Lich King has Rob grinding for gold.

Andrew swings and misses on mobile game, D&D Style RPG (choices game).

Steve enjoys local game shop, Giga-Bites Cafe, with an afternoon playing Electric Bastionland in the Old School Essentials adventure Isle of the Plangent Mage (Donn Stroud) while overlooking some very risky Warhammer battles.

We discuss Dicebreaker's news about a new Monty Python tabletop RPG, Monty Python’s Cocurricular Mediaeval Reenactment Programme that'll be on Kickstarter in October. It might not be what you were expecting, but no one ever expects the Spanish Inquisition!

Look out for next weeks episode with all time great artist Erol Otis... soon to be most famous for our collaborative adventure Song of the Shriekfrapp!

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The Epic Levels Mad Dungeon podcast is hosted by Andrew Bellury, Rob Bellury & Steve Albertson.

Produced by Zach Cowan.

Theme song by Epic Levels and beat by Inner Resting AKA Mason Grant who also makes tabletop games that you can purchase at Gamma Wave Games.

© 2022 Epic Levels. All characters in this adventure–even those based on real people–are entirely fictional.