How I Spent My Allowance: Recent Episodes

How I Spent My Allowance

A podcast in which a diverse panel reviews old D and D novels

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Whoops! This is late, but hopefully not too late!

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In which Ol' Artie kills some people he didn't really need to and we meet Harkle Harple.

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In which we meet a person with an ordinary name. And some weirdos.

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In which Nadia, James, and I wonder about some stuff in Streams of Silver.

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In which James and I (mostly I) yak on about things.

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In which we finish the Crystal Shard!

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In this one, Nadia and I discuss the the first three of the last 6 chapters of the Crystal Shard, and the dwarves get their murder on. And, uh, things get a little blue.

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James and I power through. As does Wulfgar.

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In which just James and I discuss a bunch of scrappin'.

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More fighting! Some of it political!

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We're back, baby! And we're talking fights!

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In which a really cool weapon gets smithed. And a friendship is forged. And details are hammered out!

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In which the Barbarians get whatfor at the Battle of Bryn Shander... and other stuff happens too.

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More of the Ten Towns and a little more of Akar Kessell.

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In which we go to the cold lands of icewind dale

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In which we gab.

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In which we come to the end of Legends!

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In which Tracy and Lord Soth come in for some scorn.

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In which Kitiara finally, FINALLY, gets her comeuppance.

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In which the action starts!

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In which, well, things get a little serious because Tracy has a note about 9/11.

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In which we delve deeply into WTF is up with Crysania.

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Three pretty short chapters and some fan casting.

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In which we discuss Soth being Krynn's second-biggest-edgelord and Tanis's sex-life.

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In which we take a little walk down memory reference lane.

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In which we spend only a little time in a wasteland.

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It's just us gabbing!

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In which we finish War of the Twins!

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Skullduggery! Mendacity! Naivety! And Crysania still has hot pants! Hot robe! Ye ken weel fa' I mean.

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Blood, Death, Healing, Treachery, Undefined Revelations!

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Fewer tangents, but I keep talkin' 'bout my plays.

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In which we come back and go down at least 2.5-3 rabbit holes!

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In which we don't have a lot of meat to chew...

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In which the twins choose...poorly.

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In which we read a note that is in strong contention for the worst note in this book or the Chronicles?

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In which we blab a lot because there's a fair amount of stuff that's boring to discuss in these chapters. 

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More notes, some nonsense, and support your trans siblings!

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In which we, as kind of per usual, get angry at the notes. Also we have little confusion over who Raistlin and Fistandantilus are. 

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In which I talk a lot about things I did, James talks about rasslin', and Nadia talks about art, Inktober, and storytelling.

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In which we finish Time of the Twins and have a couple of tangents.

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It's the end of Krynn as we know it, and I feel... just pissed off at everyone involved in the Cataclysm.

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In which it's the end of Krynn as we know it, and we all feel fine.

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Gosh there sure was a lot to discuss this time!

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In which we are joined by new guest Nadia (my gf) and we have a host of opinions? Do I talk about Mick Collins and the Apostles? Yes. Yes I do.

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In which we more or less get back on track.

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In which we digress...

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We've gotten to Ishtar! Wait, no that was Warren Beatty and Dustin Hoffman, and I believe they regretted it...
Anyway, LET THE TIME-TRAVELIN' COMMENCE!

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In which we do not like the Test. Up yours, Conclave of magic!

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In which Erik's thirst is revealed!

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We get a little deeper into the story, but not quite to the inciting incident.

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In which we have a discussion about fat phobia. A STRONG discussion about it. Also, Tas!

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In which James, Rikki, and I revisit some old friends, and some gripes old and new.

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Rings of Power and other stuff, here in this interstitial ep! Plus you get to hear what we have for next season!

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WE FINISH THIS MOFO!

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In which a lot of tangents are followed.

SWEENEY!

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In which we should have talked about Dune but only did a little.

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A lot of stuff not about the book, but we think the new D&D trailer is cool.

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Digressions and I ruin everyone's childhood.

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More desert!

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Welcoming Jon Stamper, previously a guest on Arrow Chapter and Verse, as a very special guest for this entire season! We return to the Forgotten Realms in a place that is very little like pretty much everywhere else on Abeir-Toril.

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Nami joins us again, and this time we're just shooting the shit.

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Joined by the redoubtable Nami Gubbi from "Sagas and Sass", we boldly finish this lukewarm-at-best anthology!

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In which James, Niomi, and I valiantly soldier our way (GET IT?!) through this fairly nonsensical story.

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We're down Niomi and Patrick, but James, Rikki, and I are still talking 'bout Krynn.

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In which we discuss Nazis, headcanon, borscht, Sweeney Todd, and The Music Man. Oh, and this story.

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In which James and I swing a duo ep for what turns out to be a bad short story.

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In which Rikki is infuriated by Tinker Gnomes.

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In which the gang discusses how different things were in the 90s.

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In which the gang (minus Captain Rikki) talks gnomes and TANGENTS.

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In which we dive into revenants!

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In which the gang discusses possible uses of the spell Prestidgitation.

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In which the gang goes back to Krynn for some non-spoiler stories.

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We just gab a bit. About a lot of things!

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We and the companions wind things down... the only way we know how? IDK, just listen to it!

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I'm pretty sure our heroes are between Nerakand a hard place.

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Berem tells his story! The one that we sort of already got! Plus, other things happen.

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All roads lead to Godshome... no, not that one. The other one.

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In which the gang continues to follow the companions as they approach the end of the series!

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We catch up with some old friends and find out that is why it's better down where it's wetter. We talk about other stuff too, but nothing quite as important as that 30+ year old cultural reference.

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Patrick's Back, but Rikki's gone, and it's a shame. But we gotta get to the end of this series, so away we go!

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A big revelation and a minor one. A battle! A Dragonfight! And the non-speaking return of ol' Boot-Scene Bakaris.

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A HEEL TURN! A LIBRARIAN! MORE STUFF!

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Hey everyone, 3/5 of us are back for season 4!

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A spirited ramble through our childhoods and how we wasted our cash.

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In which we finish Dragons of Winter Night and it's kind of a DOWNer.

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We meet Kitiara! Sort of, we've met her before!

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We're still talking Dragons of Winter Night. And Winter is... well, here. It's really been here the whole time. You know what? Nevermind.

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Our sponsorship by an in-joke continues! And we get a little more about the Knights of Solamnia!

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Introducing Rikki! And if you're on the Patreon, please help yourself to some piping hot parody!

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In which we're still figuring things out. About ourselves!  Also... SILVARA!

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And now we finally get to Ireland- I MEAN ERGOTH!

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In which we begin to see what a mess the English have made of Irelan- I MEAN what a mess the Elves have made of Ergoth.

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In which we head into a Silvanesti and it is no good for nobody.

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We begin to move away from Tarsis and on to the Elven Kingdom of Silvanesti.
(This message not approved by the Silvanesti Chamber of Commerce).

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TARSIS! And more Tarsis. And after that, a little more Tarsis.

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In which the gang reunites for a look at book 2 of the Dragonlance Chronicles.

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The answer... legos!

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In which we finish Dragons of Autumn Twilight!

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PAX THARKAAAAAAAASSSS!

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In which we're into Qualinesti and headed to Pax Tharkas.

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We're back! Including Aaron! And the action moves to Qualinost. This episode does feature a probably highly inappropriate joke. CW: 9/11 around minute 27 or so.

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You can take solace in the fact that we've left Xak Tsaroth. 

I'll, uh... I'll show myself out. Also special guest, and fellow recovering D&D novel addict, Aaron Jacobs joins us.

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WE'RE BUSTING OUT!

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In which we are still in Xak Tsaroth. Still. We'll get out at some point.

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Oh look, Xak Tsaroth. We're gonna be here for a bit.

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The gang and I head off to Xak Tsaroth. Which we pronounce Zach Tsaroth. You know that guy- he lives down the block.

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That discussion on Barbarians that I teased but never did splice in.

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Good morning everyone, and I hope you don't mind an unedited episode! I apologize, but I forgot to move it from the external hard drive to my computer. Why does that matter? Well, I was out of town this week and couldn't get to it. Nevertheless, we intrepidly review chapters 10 and 11!

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In which the gang goes further with the companions, up to the edge of Darken Wood.

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In which we continue our flight from Solace.

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We meet the rest of the companions! Basically. Does Gilthanas really count? I guess we can discuss that later. Also, the cut on this one is probably gonna be a little rough. Things... happened... during the recording.

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In which the gang finds a book they kinda like! And then they discuss the D&D tropes that underlie it.

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In which we finish the book and another dracolich.

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In which the gang pushes on through a wedding, some other assassination/kidnap attempts.

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In which we review, oh, any number of things, I expect. Narm levels up! More assassination attempts! Coincidence stretches! The Harpers have some odd racial requirements!

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In which we review several parties, some training, and a couple of random assassination/kidnapping attempts. Horsecobbles.

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In which we continue our journey through the Thunder Peaks and a good portion of the dracolich population thereof.

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In which we discuss chapters 5 and 6 of Ed Greenwood's Spellfire.

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In which we review Spellfire chapters 3 & 4: Things Get Crazy.

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An introduction to our panel and then a dive into Ed Greenwood's Spellfire.