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KPop Demon Hunters (Part 1) - April 2026 Bonus Episode | Critical Lit Get more from Critical Lit on Patreon

An Oops All Bards party protects the world from demons, but the real demons are the ones inside them all along. And the Demon King has a great sense of humor? This month's bonus content features a triumph for representation & for underdogs over corporate indifference.
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Curse of Strahd Deep Dive 18: This Little Blight of Mine Podcast Episode · Critical Lit · April 8 · 1h 42m

Everything's vine down at the Wizard of Wines! Chapter 12 is the nexus of nearly every plot hook in this book, but it's knee-deep in stick monsters and teetotaling druids. Remember, they're not dirty because they're evil; they're evil because they're dirty.
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Sinners (Part 3) - March 2026 Bonus Episode | Critical Lit Get more from Critical Lit on Patreon

Bonus content on Patreon! Even Level 15 Divination Wizard Annie isn't enough to save the juke joint crew from the depredations of Remmick von Zar O'vich.
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Curse of Strahd Deep Dive 17: Knockin' on Khazan's Door Podcast Episode · Critical Lit · March 25 · 1h 38m

It's a Dance Dance Execution at the door of Khazan's Tower. Chapter 11 of Curse of Strahd also features a wagon as volatile as a meth lab. 100 you say? Try 101! Plus, we take a harder look at Strahd's potential enemies list from Chapter 1's Fortunes of Ravenloft.
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Curse of Strahd Deep Dive 16: The Other Mother Podcast Episode · Critical Lit · March 11 · 1h 32m

Sure, Strahd had one mother, but what about second mother? In Ch. 10 of Curse of Strahd, Baba Lysaga is a boy-mom wannabe with a parasocial fixation on our titular vamp. To impress him, she wages a feud against Barovia's goats and ravens. It's a blood bath!
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Pretty birdy #2

Pretty birdy #1

Curse of Strahd Deep Dive 15: Fowl Play Podcast Episode · Critical Lit · February 25 · 1h 25m

For want of a dress, Krezk was lost. In Chapters 8 & 9 of Curse of Strahd, the Abbot gets serious about playing dress-up, Ireena takes a dive, feathered fiends guard the pass & the roc just needs a snack. But the real villain is the gruffest goat on the mountain.
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"We heard tell of a party..."

Sinners (Part 2) - February 2026 Bonus Episode | Critical Lit Get more from Critical Lit on Patreon

February bonus content on Patreon! We enter the juke joint & experience a transcendent musical experience (and a couple of sexual ones). It's everything that could have been had the inexorable toll of structural racism (vampires) not come calling. Poor Robin, indeed.
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Vasilka the flesh golem, probably.

Curse of Strahd Deep Dive 14: Build-a-Bride Workshop Podcast Episode · Critical Lit · 02/11/2026 · 1h 45m

Mutual aid! In my D&D? In Ch. 8 of Curse of Strahd, the Krezkites share everything: food, labor & a growing horror at the screams coming from the Abbey. The town's empty graves are almost as problematic as the portrayal of the people this book calls "mongrelfolk."
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But Vlad channels Pennywise...

Check out that smolder from Sir Godfrey.

Curse of Strahd Deep Dive 13: Eight Crazy Knights Podcast Episode · Critical Lit · 01/28/2026 · 1h 40m

Strahd tried to bury these gays, but this isn't that kind of story. In Chapter 7 of Curse of Strahd, what begins as a side quest to lay unquiet dead to rest soon becomes a tragic love story that can literally bring light to this forsaken land.
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D&D Walkthrough Maps Cartoon walkthrough maps based on classic Dungeons & Dragons adventures.

D&D Walkthrough maps by @mockman.bsky.social
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Curse of Strahd Deep Dive 12: Baker's Coven Podcast Episode · Critical Lit · 01/14/2026 · 1h 22m

I'm just a girl, a girl & a girl, hovering ethereally behind a boy, asking him—for the love of all that is unholy—to please be more careful with that hag eye I gifted you! Idiot.
Chapter 6 of Curse of Strahd weighs heavier on the heart than it does on the hands.
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Sinners (Part 1) - January 2026 Bonus Episode | Critical Lit Get more from Critical Lit on Patreon

January bonus content on Patreon! Relevant to our interests & culturally relevant at yet another crucial inflection point in American history where the forces of racism threaten to tear the country apart. About to win a fistful of awards but not as many as it should.
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Oh I see you’ve already made yourself at home.

Personally, I'm a fan of...Cox?

Oh, this is actually extremely helpful.

Just about the biggest crab anyone's ever seen.

IYKYK

White Plume Mountain Deep Dive 02 - Weapon of Choice | Critical Lit Consider us Schick-pilled. We wrap up both our holiday hiatus and the 1979 TSR adventure White Plume Mountain in surprisingly high spirits: arms adorned with shiny new weapons, blood infected with ins...

'Sup, Schickheads! The White Plume Mountain deep dive wraps up with a raging case of instant super-tetanus, bellies full of crab boil & a haul of legendary weapons. Plus one 6-foot hookah for good measure. Cue the @dandillon.bsky.social cold open...
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Manticore Santa's 70s calisthenics class

White Plume Mountain Deep Dive 01 - Deranged and Fanatical Evil Gnomes | Critical Lit It's an old school holiday hiatus! We're tackling the first half of S2, the 1979 TSR adventure White Plume Mountain, written exactly one time (to his eternal chagrin) by Lawrence Schick. In this episo...

Who says you can't leave Barovia? Our holiday hiatus is the 1979 TSR module White Plume Mountain, written exactly one time and no more by Lawrence Schick. It's surely chock full of renegade, deranged, fanatical gnomes!
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The Pit of Equal Justice Under the Law doesn't have the same ring to it.