For the cast and crew of the Worlds Beyond Number D&D podcast, time is on their side

polygon.com:

Recovering legendary magic items, negotiating with world-shaking creatures that wield godlike powers, and facing the enormous apparatus of a wizarding empire. The team behind Worlds Beyond Number’s inaugural Dungeons & Dragons actual-play podcast, The Wizard, the Witch, and the Wild One, have seemingly done it all — and they’ve done it all while playing their characters at level 1. For producer and audio maestro Taylor Moore, it’s at times just a little bit more than he can believe. During the recording of an upcoming episode, Moore said, he literally ran from the sound booth to the door of the playspace during a break in the action.

“It was like in those disaster movies where a submarine is imploding,” Moore said. “They had been bottling up this energy watching those two goobers turn a conversation between a young woman and her mother figure — just a simple conversation about how they were feeling — into some of the most compelling audio that I’ve ever put through my earphones.”

Moore and the podcast’s stars (and co-owners) — Erika Ishii, Aabria Iyengar, Brennan Lee Mulligan, and Lou Wilson — are all veterans in the world of actual play. Moore first lent his talents to beloved podcasts Rude Tales of Magic, Fun City, and Oh These, Those Stars of Space. Mulligan has led Dimension 20 for five years with Wilson in the core cast, while Ishii and Iyengar have played everywhere from Critical Role to The Adventure Zone and beyond. But Worlds Beyond Number is the first project the team has owned outright. Combined with the indefinite length of the project, they’re freed from many of the limits of time and scope they often face — including how they play the game, and even where their characters begin the journey.

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