Tavern Watch Podcast

Welcome to beautiful Ternion City, home of the Triangle Agency. In our corporate headquarters, agents are hard at work — right now! — to preserve reality. You like reality, don't you? Of course you do. And your friends at Triangle Agency are here to keep the reality you love safe... preferably without you noticing any of those pesky breaks in reality in the first place! What breaks in reality? We certainly haven't seen any!GM Phil Ulrich helps the Agency's latest employees with their new field assignment: to investigate a string of strangely similar and equally unexplained deaths. Sounds like a potential break in reality to us!This is the first of a three-part series in which we play Triangle Agency, an extremely triangular TTRPG by Haunted Table Games. If you enjoyed this game, you can pick up your own copy from Haunted Table Games or Modiphius. We welcome your future contributions to Triangle Agency!Intro music for this game is Business Training Background Music By Alec Koff. What a great productivity-boosting tune!

This month on Tavern Watch, we discuss the messy release of D&D's 2024 edition, which was staggered out into 2025... and seems to have lost some hype in the process. But Wizards of the Coast could turn things around, with an upcoming live action D&D show on Netflix and two new Forgotten Realms books coming out late this year. Plus all the games we're looking forward to, in which Liz could probably spend the entire show talking about Magpie's Fallen London Kickstarter (but doesn't).

The Eberron Express is about to pull into the station, and when it does Egan Bakker's killer could vanish forever. Can the passengers solve the mystery before time runs out... and do they even want to?Join DM Elizabeth Harper on this trip across Eberron, with colorful group of characters:Nick Marino as Talis, a scholar that Bakker publicly humiliated, and neither of them have forgotten it.Phil Ulrich as Jindaar, who was Bakker's business partner until he was squeezed out of the business... just before Bakker made it big.Anne Stickney as Orchid, a mysterious figure who has recently been seen hanging off Bakker's arm.Joan Albright as Treya, Bakker's neglected wife who — despite Orchid's presence — still stands by his side.Matt Rossi as Kaltjarn, Egan Bakker's long lost heir, who has spent most of her life not knowing her father.Joe Perez as Cylyeira, who knew Bakker a long time ago, before he found success.This is the last episode of a three-part D&D murder mystery called Murder on the Eberron Express, written by Orla ní Dhúill. You can buy this unconventional adventure on the DM's Guild to play it yourself! It includes pre-generated characters (though our group created their own) and requires very little prep, and the format is sure to keep players on their toes — we certainly had fun with it!

Someone on this train killed Egan Bakker, and the passengers of the Eberron Express are determined to track them down... but is the killer right in front of them? We'll see how the party fares one roll for initiative later.Join DM Elizabeth Harper on this trip across Eberron, with colorful group of characters:Nick Marino as Talis, a scholar that Bakker publicly humiliated, and neither of them have forgotten it.Phil Ulrich as Jindaar, who was Bakker's business partner until he was squeezed out of the business... just before Bakker made it big.Anne Stickney as Orchid, a mysterious figure who has recently been seen hanging off Bakker's arm.Joan Albright as Treya, Bakker's neglected wife who — despite Orchid's presence — still stands by his side.Matt Rossi as Kaltjarn, Egan Bakker's long lost heir, who has spent most of her life not knowing her father.Joe Perez as Cylyeira, who knew Bakker a long time ago, before he found success.This is the second episode of a three-part D&D murder mystery called Murder on the Eberron Express, written by Orla ní Dhúill. You can buy this unconventional adventure on the DM's Guild to play it yourself! It includes pre-generated characters (though our group created their own) and requires very little prep, and the format is sure to keep players on their toes — we certainly had fun with it!

Famed artificer Egan Bakker has invented a new weapon, and it's going to get him killed one day. As Bakker boards the luxurious Eberron Express, an unusual group or passengers joins him on the three-day route to Fairhaven... and because each of them have their own grudge against Bakker, the trip isn't likely to end well.Join DM Elizabeth Harper on this trip across Eberron, with colorful group of characters:Nick Marino as Talis, a scholar that Bakker publicly humiliated, and neither of them have forgotten it.Phil Ulrich as Jindaar, who was Bakker's business partner until he was squeezed out of the business... just before Bakker made it big.Anne Stickney as Orchid, a mysterious figure who has recently been seen hanging off Bakker's arm.Joan Albright as Treya, Bakker's neglected wife who — despite Orchid's presence — still stands by his side.Matt Rossi as Kaltjarn, Egan Bakker's long lost heir, who has spent most of her life not knowing her father.Joe Perez as Cylyeira, who knew Bakker a long time ago, before he found success.This is the first episode of a three-part D&D murder mystery called Murder on the Eberron Express, written by Orla ní Dhúill. You can buy this unconventional adventure on the DM's Guild to play it yourself! It includes pre-generated characters (though our group created their own) and requires very little prep, and the format is sure to keep players on their toes — we certainly had fun with it!Note: this episode contains some NSFW language. Blame Matthew. 

Our crew of seasoned spacefarers made it safely to the planet surface, so the hard part is over... right? All they have to do now is survive (which means not blowing themselves up), find a way home (with the nearest spaceport several solar systems away), and maybe thwart this strange new alien threat along the way. It's all the day in the life of an adventurer.Join us as we wrap up our Starfinder 2e playtest game, run by GM Matthew Rossi with co-conspirators— ah, players Joe Perez, Joan Albright, Chris Chesno, and Liz Harper. We hope you enjoy the show!

A threatening swarm of robots isn't enough to delay the Queen's Winter Gala, and it's up to our heroes to safeguard the Queen's perfectly packaged holiday gifts — and the festive fate of the winter season. Can they keep everyone safe and still make time for a spin around the dance floor? This year's Winter Gala is truly a can't miss event!Liz is hosting this game as Master of Ceremonies, joined by the following gentlefolk:Dame Margaret Clytemnestra Marlborough, a not-so-famed paleontologist (Matthew Rossi)Ser Riley Mullabyaly, a military man through-and-through (Joe Perez)Diviner Haruka Hadagami, an astrologer who blurs the line between science and mysticism (Joan Albright)Bartholomew Culpepper, an associate professor of history at Magdalene University at Cambridge (Phil Ulrich)Lady Blossom Hephestia Bee, a student who's eager to pick up every drop of social gossip (Anne Stickney)This is the last in our series of Sentai & Sensibility by 9th Level Games. It uses the Polygon system in which each player uses a single die based on their class (or in this case, their station), and we found it a great deal of fun! Pick up a copy for yourself from 9th Level Games: https://9thlevel.com/products/sentai-sensibility

Our sentai is on the chase! As present-pilfering robotic spiders flee across the city, Her Majesty's Prehistorian Praetorians race to find the culprit and salvage the holiday season. But the Queen's Winter Gala is just around the corner, with a palace full of presents to be handed out... and it's sure to make a tempting target.Liz is hosting this game as Master of Ceremonies, joined by the following gentlefolk:Dame Margaret Clytemnestra Marlborough, a not-so-famed paleontologist (Matthew Rossi)Ser Riley Mullabyaly, a military man through-and-through (Joe Perez)Diviner Haruka Hadagami, an astrologer who blurs the line between science and mysticism (Joan Albright)Bartholomew Culpepper, an associate professor of history at Magdalene University at Cambridge (Phil Ulrich)Lady Blossom Hephestia Bee, a student who's eager to pick up every drop of social gossip (Anne Stickney)This is the second in a three-part game of Sentai & Sensibility by 9th Level Games. It uses the Polygon system in which each player uses a single die based on their class (or in this case, their station), and we found it a great deal of fun! Pick up a copy for yourself from 9th Level Games: https://9thlevel.com/products/sentai-sensibility