High Rollers DnD

Mark Hulmes runs one of the longest continuously running D&D campaigns on the internet, and High Rollers is the result. The show began back in 2015 as a Yogscast offshoot and has since grown into a sprawling saga spanning multiple campaigns and hundreds of episodes. Hulmes is the kind of DM other DMs study. He builds detailed NPCs, tracks consequences across dozens of sessions, and gives his players enough rope to either save the world or hang themselves with style. The main cast, including Kim Richards, Chris Trott, Katie Morrison, and Tom Hazell, have been playing together long enough that their characters feel less like roleplaying exercises and more like old friends you are catching up with. The current flagship campaign, Aerois, has been running for years and features some of the most earned emotional payoffs in actual-play audio. What makes the podcast version work is how cleanly it is edited down from the video streams. You get the character voices, the dice drama, and the music cues without the awkward pauses. Combat encounters are tense without becoming tedious. Roleplay scenes get room to breathe. If you want a group that clearly loves the hobby and takes it seriously without getting precious about it, give the first few episodes a shot. The hook sets in fast.