{"podcast":{"title":"D&D is For Nerds","slug":"d-d-is-for-nerds-3482","podcast_index_feed_id":3482,"rss_url":"https://feeds.acast.com/public/shows/2158de25-bc3d-4828-b81f-efac999110de","website_url":"http://www.sanspantsradio.com/dnd-is-for-nerds/","image_url":"https://assets.pippa.io/shows/6113df8f8b4903822816f6f6/1666696393471-a2c13f0cb4d1d4f1dac6332e2e0f588e.jpeg","author":"Sanspants Radio","episode_count":554,"summary":"Australia’s most popular D&D actual play podcast! Set in the world of Ogg Nott, a place full of mystery and intrigue - if only the players knew it was ending. Listen to this award winning podcast as our heroes delve deep into adventure, with each season bringing a new story, new characters, and new threats to face. New listeners can start at any season, but veteran listeners will find themselves following a greater story, set over centuries. New episodes every Sunday! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.","last_synced_at":"2026-09-20T22:19:11.940559+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/d-d-is-for-nerds-3482"},"episode":{"title":"Barovia V #4 The Road is Dark and Terrible","slug":"barovia-v-4-the-road-is-dark-and-terrible","published_at":"2026-08-09T02:00:05+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/d-d-is-for-nerds-3482/barovia-v-4-the-road-is-dark-and-terrible","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/d-d-is-for-nerds-3482","url":"https://shows.acast.com/danddisfornerds/episodes/barovia-v-4-the-road-is-dark-and-terrible","audio_url":"https://sphinx.acast.com/p/acast/s/danddisfornerds/e/6a77bea0c963f68fbdecbda7/media.mp3","summary":"Trail Waffles: How I Found Myself Again [↓ Jump to Recipe ↓] (you can click that if you want, I won't be offended, though I will say a small prayer for you to Glizabert, Goddess of Travel, Privilege and Whatever-the-Opposite-of-White-Guilt-is) I wasn't always a person who made waffles on a donkey. I know. I know. You came here for a recipe, and instead you are getting Filmeena's Feelings, and I promise we will get there, we will get to the part with the flour and the fire, but first you have to understand about my grandmother's grandmother, a woman I never met, who according to family legend once fought off a bugbear using nothing but a cast-iron pan and sheer force of personality, and I think about her every single morning as I stand over my own cast-iron pan wondering if today is the day the bugbear comes back seeking revenge. It was autumn - or whatever passes for autumn in a world where the seasons are decided by which god is currently \"on one\" - and I had just left my third adventuring party in as many months, not because I don't love a good dungeon (I do, dungeons are  fine , dungeons are a  journey ), but because I had realised, somewhere around goblin encounter number forty-one, that nobody in my party had eaten a warm breakfast in six weeks and everyone was, frankly, being insufferable about it. You cannot reason with a paladin who has not had breakfast. I have tried. It ends in a lecture about \"Nome guilt\" and \"we must confess about the sin of taste\". All this from a man who, and I cannot stress this enough, eats hardtack  dry. So I quit the party. I kept the donkey. The donkey's name is Big Clop and he has never once complained about waffles, which already makes him a better travel companion than most of the two-legged adventurers I've adventu…","meta_description":"Trail Waffles: How I Found Myself Again [↓ Jump to Recipe ↓] (you can click that if you want, I won't be offended, though I will say a small prayer for yo…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":2744,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/d-d-is-for-nerds-3482/episodes/barovia-v-4-the-road-is-dark-and-terrible/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/d-d-is-for-nerds-3482/barovia-v-4-the-road-is-dark-and-terrible.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}