479 Friendship Bracelets!
This episode wraps up Sarah of Yellowcrest Manor with these lessons: Once you reach the Big Bad, you should just set him on fire. A surprise round is one stab, one fire. And most importantly, rule number one of identity theft is “hide the body.”
Previous Episodes
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December 3, 2024 — Candlekeep - Sarah of Yellowcrest Manor, Part 5
478 Sleep Without Trace
This week’s lessons: After you break into a house, you look around. Night is the optimal time for evil. Small farming towns have no commercial district. And most importantly, murder is not a complete plan.
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November 26, 2024 — Candlekeep - Sarah of Yellowcrest Manor, Part 4
477 It’s Earthquake Weather
This week’s lessons: Geography is just map history. Murder holes are surprisingly expensive. If nobody’s heard of you, you’re not an A-list cult. And most importantly, the best kind of heist is when the players steal the campaign from the DM.
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November 19, 2024 — Candlekeep - Sarah of Yellowcrest Manor, Part 3
476 Never Turn Your Back on an Awning
The good news: Paulie invents “pants of holding,” and N’iss invents “napkidding” (reverse kidnapping). The bad news: due to a small earthquake and a large centaur, the horses are down.
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November 12, 2024 — Candlekeep - Sarah of Yellowcrest Manor, Part 2
475 CSI Waterdeep
The Candlekeep crew heads to Waterdeep to meet William Faerl, an elf with a helluva hat, and to play “Good Cop, Good Cop, Neutral Cop, Bad Cop, Bad Cop.” Or is it “Good Cop, Bad Cop, Horse Cop, Little Cop, Lizard Cop”? No, no, of course it’s “Good Cop, Bad Cop, Big Cop, Little Cop, Fake Ghost Cop”!
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November 5, 2024 — Candlekeep - Sarah of Yellowcrest Manor, Part 1
474 Open and Shut Case
Another Candlekeep mystery begins with—you guessed it—more book problems for Frittat’ha, Hermioneigh, Naiasa, N’iss, and Paulie.
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April 30, 2024 — Candlekeep - The Price of Beauty, Part 7
447 A Showoff Assassin
In the final episode of The Price of Beauty, the adventurers take the battle to the hags…when they aren’t repeatedly pulling Townley from the abyss.
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April 23, 2024 — Candlekeep - The Price of Beauty, Part 6
446 Murder Armoire
Our heroes are stuck in a hallway, and their only means of defense are arson and ice rinks with a dash of desperation.
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April 19, 2024 — Candlekeep - The Price of Beauty, Part 5
445 Auburn or Blauburn
The party reunites, beats up some statues, and encounters language barriers in their quest to save a scared Dwarf from a questionable wellness clinic.
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April 9, 2024 — Candlekeep - The Price of Beauty, Part 4
444 Marinara Mimosa
Jasper meets a kobold, Lonewalker befriends a gorgon, and they may unlock the secret of the spa…but at what cost?
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April 2, 2024 — Candlekeep - The Price of Beauty, Part 3
443 Spataumatons
Relaxation turns into suspicion as the party learns more about a spa whose main product is secrecy.
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March 26, 2024 — Candlekeep - The Price of Beauty, Part 2
442 Spa Day
Our heroes have a spa day, but behind the incense and wind chimes lies danger.
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March 19, 2024 — Candlekeep - The Price of Beauty, Part 1
441 We’re Big Readers Here
A group of misfit adventurers climb through a book-shaped portal and into a suspiciously lovely spa on a quest to find a Dwarven librarian.
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February 6, 2024 — Candlekeep - A Deep and Creeping Darkness, Part 6
435 That’s Not a Boomstick
Our heroes reconvene, and the smackdown begins with spikes and teleporting and murderously rough terrain! Oh my!
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January 30, 2024 — Candlekeep - A Deep and Creeping Darkness, Part 5
434 Paulie Read an Ethics Book
The spelunking continues as our party confronts both menacing meenlocks and muddy morasses of morality.
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January 23, 2024 — Candlekeep - A Deep and Creeping Darkness, Part 4
433 Sorry about the Bagpipes
From empty(?) town to damp caves, our exhausted adventurers just can’t catch a break as they delve deep into the meenlock mystery.
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January 16, 2024 — Candlekeep - A Deep and Creeping Darkness, Part 3
432 Spooky Nightmares
Our (mostly) exhausted heroes explore the easily mispronounced town of Vermeillon to untangle the mystery of an abandoned domicile and the strange creatures within.
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January 9, 2024 — Candlekeep - A Deep and Creeping Darkness, Part 2
431 Disco Centipedes
Can our heroes resist an onslaught of disco centipedes in an otherwise drab town? Can they keep stay-stay-staying alive?
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January 2, 2024 — Candlekeep - A Deep and Creeping Darkness, Part 1
430 Bats are the Answer
In this new Candlekeep Mysteries adventure, A Deep and Creeping Darkness, a band of mismatched adventurers visit the realm’s largest library. Literary snobbery ensues.
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December 5, 2023 — Candlekeep - Shemshime’s Bedtime Rhyme, Part 5
426 A Troubling Amount of Blood
The party is so busy judging a book by its cover they forgot all about the bloody child. Shemshime’s Bedtime Rhyme concludes, and there’s even a bit of falling action!
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November 28, 2023 — Candlekeep - Shemshime’s Bedtime Rhyme, Part 4
425 Sharp and Pointy and Demanding
The earworm-based curse continues to sow discord among the adventurers. They’re sorry for all of this.
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November 21, 2023 — Candlekeep - Shemshime’s Bedtime Rhyme, Part 3
424 The Fighting Librarians
The party has gotten themselves into a classic cursed-book situation. But can they get out?
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November 14, 2023 — Candlekeep - Shemshime’s Bedtime Rhyme, Part 2
423 Upsetting Image
After four minutes of tag, Paulie is ready to use magic on children - all in the name of finding a solution to the curse of course…
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November 7, 2023 — Candlekeep - Shemshime’s Bedtime Rhyme, Part 1
422 Do Do Doo Doo Doo
A new Candlekeep adventure begins! Five familiar adventurers are stuck in the overflow rooms and concerned with toast.
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September 12, 2023 — Candlekeep - Book of the Raven, Part 6
414 Flying and Dying
The Book of the Raven finale! In which the party saves some of their people.
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September 5, 2023 — Candlekeep - Book of the Raven, Part 5
413 Dog Duty
The party goes one at a time into the grave.
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August 29, 2023 — Candlekeep - Book of the Raven, Part 4
412 Yelling Down a Well
Wereravens? There ravens!
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August 22, 2023 — Candlekeep - Book of the Raven, Part 3
411 Really Split the Party
The party encounters a muscular demon-goat thing.
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August 15, 2023 — Candlekeep - Book of the Raven, Part 2
410 A Weird Bird Pact
The party encounters a rolling cloud of darkness that murders things.
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August 8, 2023 — Candlekeep - Book of the Raven, Part 1
409 Cryptic Raven
A new Candlekeep Adventure begins! Another set of familiar and new adventurers encounter the Book of the Raven and wonder “Which way?”
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August 1, 2023 — Candlekeep - Mazfroth’s Mighty Digressions, Part 5
408 Crowded Hovel
In which the party concludes the adventure by taking on some jacked-up jackals and making a rug burrito.
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July 25, 2023 — Candlekeep - Mazfroth’s Mighty Digressions, Part 4
407 Library Police
In which the party plays “Good Book Inspector, Bad Book Inspector” with a pack of baddies.
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July 18, 2023 — Candlekeep - Mazfroth’s Mighty Digressions, Part 3
406 Rat Management
In which the party can’t tell what’s blood and what’s tomato sauce.
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July 11, 2023 — Candlekeep - Mazfroth’s Mighty Digressions, Part 2
405 Meatball Sub Vouchers
In which these book inspectors would like to speak to the manager about this Gingwatzim.
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July 4, 2023 — Candlekeep - Mazfroth’s Mighty Digressions, Part 1
404 Almost Murdered by a Book
In which some familiar adventurers and a couple new faces encounter Mazfroth’s Mighty Digressions. And a generous amount of slime.
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June 27, 2023 — Candlekeep - The Joy of Extradimensional Spaces, Part 4
403 Approach the Toad
In which it’s time to quit horsing around and pony up.
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June 20, 2023 — Candlekeep - The Joy of Extradimensional Spaces, Part 3
402 A Horse-sized Hole
In which the party finds books in chains.
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June 13, 2023 — Candlekeep - The Joy of Extradimensional Spaces, Part 2
401 Lawful Good but Not Nice
In which the party learns a meatball sub is the best medicine.
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June 6, 2023 — Candlekeep - The Joy of Extradimensional Spaces, Part 1
400 A Walk with Paulie
In which five intrepid adventurers join DM Tony to discover The Joy of Extradimensional Spaces - the first adventure from the book Candlekeep Mysteries.