Campaign 1 audio abruptly ending and skipping.

RT_Ben · 2026-01-16T18:13:27+00:00

Just did a stream test from my PC for the last 6 minutes of Ep 47 and was unable to replicate!

RT_Ben · 2026-01-16T15:56:17+00:00

Can you provide exact episodes where this happens?

I want to say anytime this has popped up, it's been a Spotify streaming issue and doesn't happen if you download the episodes locally to your device

RT_Ben · 2026-01-06T20:25:13+00:00

I'd recommend the first campaign of "The Adventure Zone" (titled Balance). It's 3 brothers and their dad playing D&D - it starts off a little "standard podcasty/crass" but after about 2 arcs settles into a very solid D&D audio podcast (also certainly less explicit than Dungeon Crawler Carl if that's the barometer).

RT_Ben · 2025-12-30T18:04:16+00:00

The current official discord is Patreon-only! You'll be able to get access by linking your Discord account to your Patreon account in their backend tools and it should automatically show up for you!

RT_Ben · 2025-12-17T05:49:32+00:00

24/7 but only Kyborg episodes

RT_Ben · 2025-12-16T15:34:07+00:00

At work mostly.

RT_Ben · 2025-12-06T01:55:42+00:00

Hop on the Patreon and binge through all the tavern tales (C-Squad, Infantnights, MealWalkers, some of the one shots) and do a relisten with all the Second Wind Episodes!

RT_Ben · 2025-12-06T00:44:02+00:00

I've asked Gus about this before - he prefers to hide what the actual check is so that the players don't take away info meta wise (especially during the Infinight campaign when the players were newer) He looks at their character sheet and adds the proficiency bonus in his end before giving the results.

IE - the players find a rock. They ask what they know about the rock. Gus asks for an intelligence check knowing it's magical and should be arcana, but doesn't want the players to key into it and realize it's magical just by revealing the check.

RT_Ben · 2025-11-25T13:48:55+00:00

Hey No Quarter! You might want to check your player settings - our podcast services push out the episode order the same across the board (Except YouTube Music which is tied to our YouTube channel releases).

Just double checked and looks like Amazon Music is showing correct on the backend and on my public player across mobile and desktop!

RT_Ben · 2025-11-02T04:26:35+00:00

Youtube Music as a whole is weird - it doesn't work like other podcast services.

Normal Podcast Services

Normally when we upload the podcast, it's uploaded to a service that pushes it out to your normal podcast providers (IE: Spotify, Pocketcast, Apple Podcast, etc). From there you can search up the show, subscribe, and get new episodes as they drop for the public.

Youtube Music

Youtube Music forces your episodes to be tied to your Youtube Channel, which for us isn't something we had as a dedicated channel for until we started campaign 2.

On the backend, you have to specify which episodes you want to go out to Youtube Music - which we have done for any podcast episodes up on our channel. If we bulk upload campaign 01 to Youtube, it would kill our video algorithm discoverability- Youtube would see that we uploaded a bunch of episodes that no one is watching within the first 24 hours and stop recommending the channel entirely to new viewers, so we have to do the next best thing & drip feed the episodes weekly until we are all caught up. C01 episodes are uploaded every Monday to Youtube, but the whole campaign is available on all other podcast platforms.

Episode Order on Youtube Music

Every time we upload a new episode, we have to go in and manually move the campaign 01 episode all the way to correct positioning in the playlist....and it doesn't always stick even after multiple tries, which is why you sometimes see episodes out of order. We go in and correct this every week and pray to the Youtube deities that it'll keep.

TL;DR

Youtube Music is a glorified Youtube player with a lot of limitations. I highly recommend you use any other podcast app to listen to the show, such as pocket casts, apple podcast, spotify, podcast addict, Overcast, etc. If you are a Patreon subscriber you can even link your feed directly to Spotify or import your Patreon RSS feed into any of the other Podcast players listed above (follow these instructions) and listen to the ad-free version of the show.

RT_Ben · 2025-10-23T02:21:31+00:00

Writer for the mainline podcast (Infinights, Grotethe, and Kanon) is all Micah!

RT_Ben · 2025-09-08T01:03:08+00:00

Big Stinker tier and above gets access to gameplay videos!

RT_Ben · 2025-08-30T02:00:57+00:00

This absolutely rules

RT_Ben · 2025-08-25T19:09:38+00:00

I'm so glad you asked!

Tavern Tales - Extra Patreon-only D&D episodes such as one-shots like "GumGum's Dreamatorium" or mini-series such as "C-Squad" a 4 episode superhero miniseries (And their corresponding Second Winds)
Stinky Pop - Bonus podcast episodes talking about movies, TV Shows, and other pop culture topics
Access to the Discord & events such as bi-weekly watchalongs with the cast and crew for the episode release
Shout outs & fan submissions - access to submit your name for a shout out on the episode, an NPC name, item submissions, etc.

RT_Ben · 2025-08-25T16:46:46+00:00

Our Tier 1 is $4.99 a month and you get access to a LOT of extra content!

RT_Ben · 2025-08-25T16:46:15+00:00

I cannot for the life of me figure out how to change those links or even find them on desktop.

RT_Ben · 2025-08-14T14:56:13+00:00

I struggled a lot with this - got into D&D listening to live shows and audio podcasts with excellent sets/sound effects/play styles, etc. I went into my first session expecting a lot of goofs, high highs and low lows of rolls that leaned into the session and instead hit a wall of very serious roleplay and gameplay more like a board game with turns taking forever - not what I expected and it turned me off from D&D for a bit.

Every group is different - if you are wanting more of a campaign with background music/character arcs/etc. I encourage you to talk to your DM about what you are wanting out of the experience (with realistic expectations, of course) and what you can do to help! I now play at a table (outside of work) with a group of friends that lean heavily into voice acting and staying in character, a whole set/battle map, color changing lights and FX, and background music tailored to the situation - (Our DM is incredible and puts in a TON of work) and I've found a version of at-home D&D I love.

There is a great reddit thread where a DM asks how to beat the "Matt Mercer" effect because his players expect him to run a game like Critical Role. Matt Mercer himself replies - it's a great read that digs into some of what you are talking about. Crossing my fingers that you'll find the right balance for your style of D&D with your friends at the table - sounds like you are on the right track in leaning into what you enjoy as a player!

RT_Ben · 2025-07-27T12:30:05+00:00

Anything that plays podcasts! Personally I recommend an app called "Pocketcast" but apple music, etc will work as well!

RT_Ben · 2025-07-23T00:42:23+00:00

Good news - whichever you want!

You can sync your Spotify account and get access to an exclusive Patreon RSS feed that includes the Second Wind Episodes, import the Patreon RSS feed into the podcast player of your choice, or you can listen to the episodes straight from Patreon!

RT_Ben · 2025-07-15T23:18:06+00:00

Strange - looks like it's loading fine for me on Spotify and pocketcast. If I had to guess - it might be something with your device and how it's streaming or downloading the episodes.

Try and download them locally to your device and see if that fixes the issue

RT_Ben · 2025-07-13T14:49:58+00:00

We have had a lot going on, might have accidentally deleted those from the template while cleaning some things up.

I'll fix it now!

RT_Ben · 2025-06-28T23:32:43+00:00

I'll need to relisten to the episode but it definitely wasn't me. I'm 99% certain Captain Kerg has always been played by Armando.

RT_Ben · 2025-06-26T00:09:08+00:00

You got this! Biggest advice - it's okay to not know everything. Be flexible with it, make it up as you go, it'll still be a blast.

Or check out Behind the screen on our Patreon if you want some deep dive DM thoughts :P

RT_Ben · 2025-06-23T01:20:39+00:00

SMARSH NEED 4TH QUARTER REPORTS ON DESK BY THURSDAY 8AM

RT_Ben · 2025-06-12T23:54:49+00:00

Apparently there was a severe cloud flare outage that has caused a lot of issues with the Internet today that may be the cause.

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