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Lair of Secrets

@sidepassages.com
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A podcast exploring the sprawling caverns of gaming and hidden treasures of geekdom. sidepassages.com lairofsecrets.com www.youtube.com/@lairofsecrets

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Lair of Secrets @sidepassages.com · 27/09/2026
Join us as we make our first character for the Dungeon Crawler Carl Tabletop RPG. www.youtube.com/watch?v=UMR2... #DungeonCrawlerCarl #TTRPG
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Creating a character for the Dungeon Crawler Carl TTRPG (S6E3)
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nukehavoc.bsky.social @nukehavoc.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Zalerin — Nature’s Law, Cleric of Tanil -- was ready in time for today's monthly real-world #CastlesAndCrusades game.
A green-cloaked cleric wielding a mace stands on a character sheet. A set of green and gold dice appears next to him.
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Lair of Secrets @sidepassages.com · 08/08/2026
Ken's Saturday RPG project is painting his cleric for his monthly Castles & Crusades real-world game (in which he's a player, not a GM). What's your weekend RPG project? #RPG #TTRPG #CastlesAndCrusades #RPGMinis
A green-cloaked cleric wielding a mace stands next to a set of green-and-black crystal dice.
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nukehavoc.bsky.social @nukehavoc.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
I'm looking for new RPG podcasts (conventional, audio-based podcasts) for my commute and my next Knights of the Dinner Table column. Post 'em if you got 'em. #Podcasts #Research #TTRPG
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Lair of Secrets @sidepassages.com · 05/08/2026
Our Summer 2026 reading list is out. Do *you* have a summer reading list? If so, what's on it? #Books #SummerReading #SummerReadingList
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Lair of Secrets @sidepassages.com · 02/08/2026
We venture back to Night City with Ken's unboxing of the Night City 2045 source book for Cyberpunk RED youtu.be/24eBsVXME64 #cyberpunk #cyberpunkRED #edgerunners #scifi #TTRPG #Unboxing
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Unboxing Night City 2045 #Cyberpunk
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Lair of Secrets @sidepassages.com · 01/08/2026
Editing Lair's summer reading list episode ... which means it's time for more fun with transcription errors. The favorite so far? Dunkin' Idaho != Duncan Idaho Forget the spice. Dune runs on #Dunkin #SummerReading #Books
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Sticky Doodler 🖍️ Color Jam @stickydoodler.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
This bundle is selling like hotcakes! 🥞 Find out why the ENNIES created a new category for "Best Solo Game"... ✒️🎲 Try them for yourself ✅🗳️ Vote for your favorites 🗣️📢 Tell your friends We believe solo games offer something different and exciting. Play around and find out!
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Lair of Secrets @sidepassages.com · 11/07/2026
FUNGI ATE MY WIZARD! (and other underground threats for Shadowdark) #Shadowdark #ShadowdarkRPG #TTRPG youtu.be/Pgs5oF_NZCg
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Underground Hazards for Shadowdark
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Michael - InnocentGoblin TTRPGs @innocentgoblin.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
To celebrate the inaugural Best Solo Game category, we have all 5 games in one £20 bundle! This category is full of such fantastic games, it's an absolute honour to have Pirouette amongst them! itch.io/b/3797/2026-...
Ennies Best Solo Games bundle

£20 . over 50% off . every 2026 nominee

5 covers: Odyssey of the giant, Pirouette, Song of The Scryptwyrm, Spine, The Bonzai Diary
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Lair of Secrets @sidepassages.com · 07/07/2026
The ten-foot pole is a staple of adventuring kits. Should it be? * Yes. It's an essential trap-finding & utility tool * No. It's an unwieldy waste of space * Well actually... (leave a comment) #DnD #EssentialGear
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Lair of Secrets @sidepassages.com · 07/07/2026
Avoid the slugfest. Use morale to end the fight early. #DnD #DMTips youtube.com/shorts/PXPts...
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Avoid the slugfest. Use morale to end the fight early. #DnD
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Lair of Secrets @sidepassages.com · 03/07/2026
The Forgotten GM Tool Every Dungeon Master Skips #DnD #Shadowdark #DMAdvice www.youtube.com/watch?v=5sIW...
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The Forgotten GM Tool Every Dungeon Master Skips
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Lair of Secrets @sidepassages.com · 02/07/2026
D&D house cleaning session accidentally ends campaign youtube.com/shorts/Evg1V... #DnD #TTRPG #RPGCampaign #DragonHeist #DnD
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D&D house cleaning session accidentally ends campaign
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Lair of Secrets @sidepassages.com · 24/05/2026
We created 1d4 arctic hazards to challenge your Shadowdark players. Better bring a heavy coat, mittens, hot chocolate, and -- of course -- a 10' pole... #ShadowDark #DMTips #TTRPG www.youtube.com/watch?v=PiU5...
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d4 Arctic Hazards for Shadowdark (S5E16)
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Lair of Secrets @sidepassages.com · 30/04/2026
Watching #dropouttv and working on out #dungeonjam dungeon this evening. What are you all up to?
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@Symatt™ 🍉🌽 @symatt.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
April 26, 4/26, LV-426. Enjoy Alien day
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a woman standing in a body of water with a ghost in the background
ALT: a woman standing in a body of water with a ghost in the background
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Lair of Secrets @sidepassages.com · 26/04/2026
The Shadowdark rules say torches throw light to a “Near” distance, which is 30 ft. But is that 30 ft. from the torchbearer (30′ radius, 60′ diameter) OR 30 ft. centered on them (15′ radius, 30′ diameter)? Let's vote. Which do you use in your game? #Shadowdark #ShadowdarkRules
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Lair of Secrets @sidepassages.com · 25/04/2026
The Great Shadowdark Torch Debate: Just how much area *does* a torch light up in Shadowdark? youtu.be/bmhAlrFqwuY #ShadowdarkRPG #ShadowDark #GMTips #DMTips #RPGRules
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The Great Shadowdark Torch Debate (S5E15)
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Lair of Secrets @sidepassages.com · 28/03/2026
Terrain, weather, and severe weather dice for RPG hex crawls. Because we needed more dice. No really, we needed more dice... youtube.com/shorts/63JnS... #hexcrawl #TTRPG #gmtips #dmtips
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Weather and Terrain Dice #DMTips #Hexcrawl
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Lair of Secrets @sidepassages.com · 04/03/2026
Ken's prepping for an overland journey in his Shadowdark campaign, and thinking about weather. The weather "hex flower" approach at Goblin's Henchman is pretty cool: it's like a hexcrawl ... but for weather. goblinshenchman.wordpress.com/2019/06/03/h... #weather #hexcrawl #GMTools #CampaignPrep
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Lair of Secrets @sidepassages.com · 07/02/2026
The internet is unpleasantly like telepathy you can't shutoff... #cozy youtube.com/shorts/MQuWl... #Cozy #LairShorts #CozyTech #TurnOffYourPhone
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Unpleasantly like telepathy you can't shutoff... #cozy
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Lair of Secrets @sidepassages.com · 02/02/2026
Talking D&D and Pot Luck Dinners #DnD #CozyGaming youtube.com/shorts/KoUEM...
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D&D and Pot Luck Dinners #DnD #CozyGaming
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Lair of Secrets @sidepassages.com · 25/01/2026
Snowed in? Sounds like it's time for some cozy activities! www.youtube.com/watch?v=0N9Q... #Cozy #DefiningCozy #CozyActivities #Hygge #Gluggaveour #WindowWeather
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Defining Cozy - Campaigns & Coffee
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Lair of Secrets @sidepassages.com · 12/01/2026
We're editing our next episode, in which we talk about solo role-playing games. Which, of course, means more fun with machine-generated transcripts. #Editing #Podcasts
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Lair of Secrets @sidepassages.com · 07/01/2026
Rise and shine, campers! It's a Pop-Tarts and podcast editing kind of morning. :) On the agenda today: Part 2 of our "Crawl Out Through the Fallout" one-shot for #Fallout2d20
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Lair of Secrets @sidepassages.com · 04/01/2026
d10 Reasons Fallout 2d20 Is Great is upon YouTube. Share and Enjoy! youtu.be/mmmLqz-LxFs
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d10 Reasons the Fallout RPG is Great (S5E10)
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Lair of Secrets @sidepassages.com · 31/12/2025
Time to make the shorts. Love this quote from David, as he was GMing our ShadowDark actual play: "This is not a crocodile. It's a vampirodile." #ShadowDark #ShadowDarkRPG #ActualPlay
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nukehavoc.bsky.social @nukehavoc.bsky.social · 31/12/2025
Work in progress: Swamp's Fork. Located at one of the forks in the Swamp River (a prominent waterway in the Mistmash), Swamp's Fork is a temporary town catering to the criminal element. #Greyhawk #Greyhawk76 #Cartography
An overhead view of a marshy river town called Swamp's Fork. It consists of a forked river, an island, two shores, and a number of tents.
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Lair of Secrets @sidepassages.com · 30/12/2025
Does a "20" hit the wizard? (spoiler: yes) #Shadowdark #ActualPlay youtube.com/shorts/OPOan...
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Does a "20" hit the wizard? (spoiler: yes) #Shadowdark
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Lair of Secrets @sidepassages.com · 30/12/2025
We're editing our "d10 Reasons Fallout 2d20 is Great" episode. Captions have been pretty clean this time around but ...
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nukehavoc.bsky.social @nukehavoc.bsky.social · 21/12/2025
Lost Citadel of the Crimson Minotaur gets a lot of love because it's in the quick start rules. I've also seen a lot of talk about Trial of the Slime Lord (as a zero-level gauntlet).
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Lair of Secrets @sidepassages.com · 21/12/2025
A hydra name generator, just in case you need to name your favorite multi-headed horror... #DnD #GamePrep www.fantasynamegenerators.com/hydra-names....
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Hydra names
Hydra name generator. 1000's of names are available, you're bound to find one you like.
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Lair of Secrets @sidepassages.com · 21/12/2025
Progress Clocks plugin for #ObsidianMD, which Ken is definitely using in his #DnD game tonight. [insert monstrous "glub-glub" croaking here] github.com/tokenshift/o...
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GitHub - tokenshift/obsidian-progress-clocks: Progress clocks and other useful widgets for https://obsidian.md/.
Progress clocks and other useful widgets for https://obsidian.md/. - tokenshift/obsidian-progress-clocks
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Lair of Secrets @sidepassages.com · 21/12/2025
What's your favorite Shadowdark adventure / module? We're gathering ideas for a future episode, and would love feedback from our community. Obviously, we're partial to Raiders of the Hidden Temple, but there are a ton of other options out there. #shadowdark #ShadowdarkRPG
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nukehavoc.bsky.social @nukehavoc.bsky.social · 20/12/2025
Chill morning drinking coffee and recording a new season of Campaigns & Coffee with the @lairofsecrets.bsky.social crew. Our topics today: "Defining Cozy" and "Cozy Games" #podcast
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Lair of Secrets @sidepassages.com · 19/12/2025
The final episode of our Shadowdark: Raiders of the Hidden Temple actual play is up on YouTube and in the Lair of Secrets podcast feed. #Shadowdark #ActualPlay #TTRPG Share and enjoy! www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y2HU...
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Raiders of the Hidden Temple, Part 3/3 (S5E9) #shadowdark
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Lair of Secrets @sidepassages.com · 19/12/2025
It's been quiet around here. Too quiet. Probably because we've been off playing with some new dice! Dungeon Generator Dice youtu.be/dqgDZRoHTPo #Dice #FunkyDice #TTRPG #DungeonDesign
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Unboxing Dungeon Generator Dice #DungeonGenerator #DnD #FunkyDice
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Lair of Secrets @sidepassages.com · 13/12/2025
Welcome to the Shrine of the Last Stop. Don't mind the corpses! www.youtube.com/shorts/Nj-vq... #fallout #fallout2d20 #actualplay
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Mind the corpses! #fallout
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Lair of Secrets @sidepassages.com · 10/12/2025
Torch Rings for Shadowdark youtu.be/5Tkrtd3fLuA #ShadowDark #ShadowDarkRPG #TTRPG #GMTools #GMTips #RPGProps
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Torch Rings for Shadowdark
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Lair of Secrets @sidepassages.com · 06/12/2025
Crawl Out Through the Fallout - our one-shot actual play - out! Catch it in our podcast feed or on YouTube: youtu.be/4bC4lAh0Xgw #fallout2d20 #fallout #ttrpg #actualplay #podcast
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Crawl Out Through the Fallout, Part 1 (S5E8) #fallout2d20
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Lair of Secrets @sidepassages.com · 05/12/2025
DarkSpace Interview: Sci-Fi for Shadowdark (S5E7) youtu.be/QpzlKzyfVx0 #ShadowDark #DarkSpace #ShadowDarkRPG #TTRPG #Podcast
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DarkSpace Interview: Sci-Fi for Shadowdark (S5E7)
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Lair of Secrets @sidepassages.com · 05/12/2025
We're editing the first part of our "Crawl Out Through the Fallout" one-shot for #Fallout2d20 ... which means its time to see what post-apocalyptic words the transcript generator had trouble with.
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Lair of Secrets @sidepassages.com · 03/12/2025
Editing our interview with Derek White about the #DarkSpace Kickstarter. Time for more fun with auto transcripts! #podcast
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Lair of Secrets @sidepassages.com · 30/11/2025
The downside to charging off into the dark youtube.com/shorts/R7K3L... #shadowdark #actualplay
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The downside to charging off into the dark #shadowdark
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Lair of Secrets @sidepassages.com · 29/11/2025
Beware the Cranberry Gelatinous Cube! #shadowdark #monsters youtube.com/shorts/i4xKt...
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Beware the Cranberry Gelatinous Cube! #shadowdark #monsters
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Lair of Secrets @sidepassages.com · 29/11/2025
New Lair Poll: Grey Ooze vs. Black Pudding. Which wins in a fight? #dnd #shadowdarkRPG www.youtube.com/post/UgkxC89... #DnD #Shadowdark #TheGreatOozeWar
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Lair of Secrets @sidepassages.com · 29/11/2025
The Procedural City Generator creates 2D and 3D city maps. The 3D maps are exportable to Blender. Map styles include Google Maps, Apple Maps, and hand-drawn. Check it out at: probabletrain.itch.io/city-generator #TTRPG #Cartography #MapMaking #Cyberpunk
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City Generator by ProbableTrain
Procedurally-generated American cities
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Lair of Secrets @sidepassages.com · 27/11/2025
Another episode recorded - this time we spend 30 minutes geeking out about oozes, cubes, and puddings for #Shadowdark (and occasional digressions into 1st and 5th Edition D&D). And now ... editing.
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Lair of Secrets @sidepassages.com · 22/11/2025
@nukehavoc [insert obligatory Flash Gordan quote here]
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