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Start A Quest!

Matthew Perkins & Sidney Icarus

SAQ is a fortnightly D&D and TTRPG podcast. Hosted by Matt (bald) and Sidney (they/them), based in Melbourne, Australia. Join the newsletter at www.start-a-quest.com :)

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  • English

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  • S1 · E21
    Dec 28, 2025 · 31 min

    HELP! I gave my level 1 players a Vorpal Sword!

    D&D is weird because when you give the players loot, it feels like you can do it WRONG. Take a look at the Vorpal Sword; if you crit with this thing, you instakill your target. If you've given this to a level 1 party, have you ruined your campaign? Our answer is: no, you're fine! Watch the video version here: https://youtu.be/7YjOsZcUSL4 And sign up to the newsletter https://www.start-a-quest.com ▼▼ SOURCES MENTIONED ▼▼ 1. The Vorpal Sword https://www.dndbeyond.com/magic-items/5397-vorpal-sword

  • S1 · E20
    Dec 14, 2025 · 41 min

    Here's what Goodberry says about challenges in D&D

    Isn't it weird how a D&D player can cast the Goodberry spell and decide for the entire group that foraging and rations will not be a feature of this campaign? Or how about an adventurer with the Lucky feat deciding that failure isn't interesting? These are in-game features designed to address out-of-game player preferences, and they're super weird, and that's what this episode is about. Watch the video version here: https://youtu.be/0fyLpRIfJDo And sign up to the newsletter https://www.start-a-quest.com ▼▼ SOURCES MENTIONED ▼▼ 1. Montola's Invisible Rules of Roleplaying (exogenous, endogenous, diegesis) https://www.researchgate.net/publication/273946812_The_Invisible_Rules_of_Role-Playing_The_Social_Framework_of_Role-Playing_Process 2. The Grasshopper, Bernard Suits (constitutive rules, technique rules, etc) https://books.google.com.au/books/about/The_Grasshopper_Third_Edition.html?id=K3ARAwAAQBAJ&source=kp_book_description&redir_esc=y 3. TBA, Sidney's paper about coherence in games... 4. Blades in the Dark TTRPG https://bladesinthedark.com/

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