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->''We have to do math? You did ''not'' tell me there would be math!''
-->--'''Mike'''

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[[caption-width-right:342: "I want you to know something before I die. I was ''awesome''."]]
A collaborative podcast between PennyArcade and WizardsOfTheCoast, where Jerry Holkins and Mike Kraholik from PennyArcade join Scott Kurtz from PvP to play TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons, with Chris Perkins, a senior producer from [[WizardsOfTheCoast WoTC]], as their DM. In Season 2, they are joined by Creator/WilWheaton.

The campaign features the adventures of Acquisitions Incorporated, an adventuring team. To date, they've been on six adventures, spread over three podcast seasons and three PAX livegames:

# '''The Keep on the Shadowfell''' sees the newly founded Acquisitions Incorporated venturing down through Shadowfell Keep in pursuit of Irontooth, the leader of the local wildlife (read: kobolds and goblins). The season is divided into two sections with each part having a different DM. The first part consists of the party's battle against Irontooth and his goblins, while the latter is about their confrontation with a death cult of Orcus. This adventure is an abridged version of ''The Keep on the Shadowfell'', the first module published for 4E.
# '''The Tower of Goldenhawk''' rejoins the group several months later as they're joined by new hire Aeofel (Creator/WilWheaton). The new lineup is hired by the town guard captain to scout out the abandoned tower of Goldenhawk. This and all subsequent adventures were written and [=DMed=] by Chris Perkins especially for the podcast, although a modified version of this one (titled ''Storm Tower'') was published in Dungeon Magazine.
# '''The Ambershard Manor''' sends the group to help the dwarven city of Hammerfast get rid of a criminal clan. The mission quickly turns personal when Binwin learns the leaders of the bandits are the Ambershards, sworn enemies of the Bronzebottoms. [[DownerEnding It doesn't end well]].
# '''The Prisoners of Slaughterfast''' was played live at PAX 2010. The surviving members gather to perform a ritual to bring back their fallen buddy, only for it to fail for an unexpected reason: [[spoiler:Aeofel's already alive]]. To get him back, Acquisitions Incorporated are going to hell!
# '''The Last Will and Testament of James Darkmagic I''' was played live at PAX 2011. Following the death of Jim's grandfather, Acquisitions Incorporated travel to Jim's childhood home of the Darkmagic Estate in New Hampshire for the reading of the will and some unexpected adventures.
# '''The Lost Episode''' was played live at PAX 2012. The heroes wake up tied to the altar of an imposing demon, only to be met by a mysterious Drow girl who seeks their help and warns of the dangerous "others".

A fourth podcast with most of the same players (Wil was replaced by Kris Straub and Jerry was the GM in place of Chris) served as a prologue to the second season of Wizards' ''Encounters'' campaign, showcasing the newly resurrected ''DarkSun'' campaign setting.

The party (for the Acquisitions campaign) consists of:
* '''Omin Dran''' (full name: '''Ominifis Hereward Dran'''), CEO of Acquisitions and a half-elf cleric of Avandra. Played by Jerry Holkins, co-author of PennyArcade.
* '''Binwin Bronzebottom''', a Dwarven fighter. Played by Scott Kurtz, author of Webcomic/PvP.
* '''Jim Darkmagic''' (full name: '''James Winifred Darkmagic III'''), a narcissistic human wizard of the New Hampshire Darkmagics. Played by Mike Krahulik, co-author of PennyArcade.
* '''Aeofel Elhromane''' (better known as '''Al'''), an Eladrin avenger of Melora and the company's new intern. Played by Creator/WilWheaton.

The podcasts can be found [[http://www.wizards.com/dnd/podcasts.aspx here]], and the PAX games can be viewed [[http://www.wizards.com/dnd/feature.aspx?x=dnd/feature/paxgame here]], [[http://www.wizards.com/dnd/article.aspx?x=dnd/4news/paxgame here]], and [[https://www.wizards.com/dnd/Article.aspx?x=dnd/4news/paxgame2012 here]] (as well as on Website/YouTube).

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!!The series provides examples of:
* ARareSentence:
-->'''Wil''': Dungeon Master, friends, assembled nerds. I'm forty years old. I have been playing Dungeons and Dragons since the Red Box set in 1981, 82, 83, somewhere around there in my life. It is safe to say that I have been playing Dungeons and Dragons for a minimum of 20 years, possibly longer, maybe closer to 30 years. [[ARareSentence I'm gonna say something I have never said.]] I have gone against the giants, I've been killed in the Tomb of Horrors, I have visited the Temple of Elemental Evil, and of course, there is not a single square in the Cave of Chaos that I have not crawled through. One time I talked to a wizard named Bargle, and I have never said the following words: [[ItMakesSenseInContext I will climb up the asshole.]]
* AccidentalInnuendo: Happens a couple of times in the PAX live games.
--> '''Omin''': So go bang on her!
--> '''Aeofel''': Wait, what?
--> '''Omin''': I mean with your sword.
--> '''Binwin''': Huh?
--> '''Omin''': No, I mean with a weapon!
*** And:
--> '''Chris''': It's been several years since you had to ''"mount"'' Cronk.
--> '''Jim''': Well, I have a girlfriend now...
* AliensSpeakingEnglish: Well, played with in Season 6: the Drow girl speaks in French.
** [[LampshadeHanging Blocked by the DM]] when the players translate her French.
--->'''Wil:''' So, she said she wants our help to steal the eye?
--->'''Chris:''' You have no idea.
* AllThereInTheManual: The official WizardsOfTheCoast podcast did a few episodes about converting the Acquisitions Incorporated characters to D&D Next, which helps explain why everyone's abilities are so different in the PAX 2012 games. Among other things, the mechanics for Wizards were still in early beta, the new Fighter mechanics were very different, and Aeofel is technically a Cleric because an Avenger class/build hadn't been designed yet.
* AwesomeEgo: Jim Darkmagic
* AwesomeMcCoolname: Mike's character, Jim Darkmagic.
** During character creation, immediately called out by Scott Kurtz, who demands "Why don't you call yourself Chet ''Awesomelaser''?" The group then also "Jim Fellmagic," "Fell Darkjim," "Jim Felldark," "Fell Darkevil," and "Ominous Darkfell Magic-Bad." (Nonetheless, the original name grew on them quickly.)
* SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic: The Minstrels, from the second PAX game.
-->'''Wil''': I heard these minstrels open for [[JonathanCoulton Jonathan of Coulton]].
* BackupBluff: Taking advantage of Percy's inability to perceive fey, Jim tries to do this in the second live game. It doesn't work.
-->'''Jim''': Percy! You are ''surrounded'' by my fey army... of ''fey'' warriors! [[DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment They are all fey.]]
* BadassBoast: Aeofel, all alone in hell, facing [[BigBad Cetrine Ambershard]] and a Devil lording over a fortress full of minions and artillery, makes numerous claims of how he will extract a price in blood from all of them.
--> '''Cetrine''': Acquisitions Incorporated will be a footnote in the pages of history!
--> '''Aeofel''': Acquisitions Incorporated will not be a footnote, Acquisitions Incorporated will write the book!
*** Jerry/Omin is pretty good at these.
-->'''Omin''': Percival, let me save you a lot of time. We're better than you. Each of us, individually, are better than you. If we all hit you at once, you will explode.
* BagOfHolding: The party acquire one in season 1, although it doesn't feature in later campaigns.
* BaseOnWheels: The Darkmagic family manor (which isn't actually on wheels; it "merely" teleports).
* BerserkButton: Aeofel goes apeshit when he is called "Al", which becomes a sort of PhraseCatcher.
* BigScrewedUpFamily: The Darkmagics, with some additional nuttiness from being a family of wizards.
* BigDamnHeroes: Splug, the temporarily foe-turned friend goblin employee, pulls one at the climax of season 1 where he saves the party from another defeat.
** Done epically in the first live PAX game where right after the bad guy is taunting Aeofel for how his friends have abandon them, the party appears on a hell beast to rescue him.
* BiggerOnTheInside: Jim Darkmagic's extra-dimensional bachelor pad.
* BloodKnight: Binwin Bronzebottom
* BolivianArmyEnding: Never used in-game, but Jerry believes that all adventures should conclude with...
-->''You look up. It is a mouth.''
* BreakingTheFourthWall: Integrally. And it works [[FromBeyondTheFourthWall in both directions]], though stopping just short (usually) of AudienceParticipation. Wall? [[NoFourthWall What wall]]?
** In Ep 6, Wil [[AsideComment deliberately mugs to the audience]] after pointing out a new feature in D&D Next, in mock shill. And is then disappointed when the DM won't reward him with a bonus on his next roll.
* BriefAccentImitation: Omin when yelling for the french speaking Daniel to find the switch that controls the acid trap in Ep 6.
--> '''Omin''': S'il vous plait!
* ButtMonkey: As the team tank and pointman, Binwin is constantly caught in traps, set on fire, and generally treated like shit. He can (usually) take it.
* CatchPhrase:
** Jim Darkmagic has a habit of saying "Have a magical day!" or a variant of it.
** Omin has a habit of saying that some event "is the worst thing that could happen."
** Aeofel often says [[PunctuatedForEmphasis "My name. Is. AEOFEL!"]] when people call him "Al," and also would like to remind us all that "elves are the eladrin's hillbilly cousins." Out of character, Wil also declares his catchphrase to be "Does nineteen work for you?"
*** BorrowedCatchphrase: "Aeofel winks".
* CriticalMiss: Jerry is infamous for this. See the entry below for EpicFail.
* CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass: The idiotic SurferDude, Rad Longhammer, is able to defeat a couple of guards while unarmed and [[WithMyHandsTied shackled]].
* DeathByIrony: [[BigBad Citrine Ambershard]] dies in an acid pit, much to Aeofel's amusement.
* DefeatMeansFriendship: After defeating Irontooth and his lackeys, the only surviving goblin pledges his loyalty to the party, if only so they won't kill him. He proves his worth later in the campaign.
--> '''Jim''': Have we room for a new hire?
* DeliberateInjuryGambit: It's a common tactic of the team for Binwin to charge in and get surrounded, whereupon Jim drops a fireball on all of them, Binwin included. Binwin is not always in on this plan but generally comes out of it looking better than the bad guys.
** In fact by Season 3, they've learned to use it to their advantage, where Binwin gets temp hit points when he gets wounded, and Jim gets better stats to hit enemies if his friends are in the field of attack.
* [[spoiler:DownerEnding: At the end of season three, the party hasn't helped Barton or Hammerfast, neither of the chief villains have been captured or defeated, and Aeofel is dead.]]
* EpicFail: At the climax of season two, Binwin and Jim are down, and Omin and Aeofel are in bad shape as well. Omin breaks out an encounter power, [[CriticalMiss but rolls an one.]] With some divine intervention from Aeofel, he gains a re-roll and tries again. And rolls another one.
** Nearly duplicated in the first PAX game by Binwin, who manages a 2 on the second roll.
** Also, in the second PAX game:
--> Wil/Aeofel: Oh yeah, so I run down the thing, and I land on top of the bear, and I, like, flip in the air, and then, as I'm coming down, I sort of, like, barrel-roll a little bit, and then I flip again, and then I come down here so I land just like this, so I'm flanking this guy. Yeah, and it's super-cool! And there's rock music playing while I do it, and I'm gleaming cubes on my way there, and as I come down, I use my Avenging Echo against him... ohhh, I rolled a 1.
** In the third PAX game, Omin rolled a 1 on his first roll while the others rolled well into the double digits. That roll being a Constitution save.
--->'''Wil''': Is he dead?\\
'''Chris''': No, he's just very, very unconscious. Possibly for the rest of the show.
** In the Sixth Game, Omin rolled a 1 on his first roll of the entire game. You can even spot Chris Perkins taking a picture of it with his iPhone.
* FourPhilosophyEnsemble: The cast fits it surprisingly well.
** [[TheLeader Omin]] as the Cynic
** [[AwesomeEgo Jim]] as the Apathetic
** [[BloodKnight Binwin]] as the Optimist
** [[TheIntern Aeofel]] as the Realist
* GagPenis: The whole penis conversation from season two. Apparently dwarven penises are shaped like tuna cans.
--> "When women see it, they say it's time for some more chicken of the sea."
* GenreSavvy: Jerry, very much so at the second PAX game.
--> "Put these books in your box, close the lid of the box, remove the key, swallow the key, get the [[PrecisionFStrike fuck]] on this dragon, let's get out of here."
* GracefulLoser: When the guys beat the Ambershards' gatekeeper, he willingly opens the only entrance to the manor and leaves.
* MyNameIsInigoMontoya: Aeofel usually introduces himself to his enemy before he swears his Oath of Enmity. Which he does ''a lot''.
* NoodleIncident: All the horrible implications Jim makes about his childhood with the Darkmagic carriage Cronk, an ancient, skeletal dragon. Also that his cousin Olivia makes about her childhood with Jim.
* HonorBeforeReason: Two uses combine in the third season:
** First, ItsPersonal for Binwin when the party is raiding the home of Clan Ambershard, which had ruined the Bronzebottoms. So while everyone else wants to get the treasure and leave, he leads them straight into a confrontation with Leer, the BigBad.
** This leads to Aeofel swearing his Oath of Enmity on Leer, and once that happens, he pursues even when (both in and out of character) he realizes it means getting separated from the team. Which ends with [[spoiler: Aeofel meeting his end in an acid pit]].
* HurricaneOfPuns: All the "fey" jokes in the second PAX game.
** "They don't acknowledge fey marriage in this state".
** "This isn't the first time I have double-teamed someone with a fey".
** "This isn't the first time I have bloodied someone with a fey".
* IWillShowYouX: In the first PAX live game:
-->'''Devil''': You have never experienced fire ''this'' mighty.
-->'''Jim''': I will show you... ''fire''.
* JerkAss: Jim Darkmagic is selfish, narcissistic, and pretty cruel. [[RefugeInAudacity He is still loved by the fans]].
* KillItWithFire: Jim's primary method of injuring enemies (and Binwin).
* KissingCousins: Jim and his cousin, the bushy/busty bombshell Olivia.
** [[spoiler:SurpriseIncest]]: Turns out...
* LinearWarriorsQuadraticWizards: After Jim [[SummonMagic summons a magmabeast]], Aeofel becomes a [[BattleAura beacon of Malora's might]], and Omin declines to attack because [[NotWorthKilling he wants to save his abilities for stronger enemies]], Scott complains that Binwin's daily powers are still just [[WhenAllYouHaveIsAHammer "hit things with hammer".]]
* LiteralMetaphor: In Ep6, the DM repeatedly describes Danielle's movements in terms normally used to describe Spiders.
** Wil calls him out on this. "I'm just saying, you are making very suspicious choices of words, sir."
* MundaneUtility: The first time Jim, a mighty wizard capable of great magical feats, uses magic in season 3. What does he do? He closes a door dramatically.
--> '''Mike''': I'm gonna turn that daily over.
* NeverLiveItDown: Aeofel get's reminded of his trip to the acid pit in season 3 at every opportunity, by everyone. Including the DM, and the audience at the live games.
** Jerry's terrible rolling, repeatedly brought up, and even immortalized in the the "critical fail" song.
* NeverSplitTheParty: Aeofel shows us why in Season 3.
* OnceAnEpisode: With the exception of the 2011 PAX game, every session since the third podcast has had someone fall in (and in several cases die from) a pit of acid.
* PassedOverInheritance: Most of the Darkmagic clan in the second PAX game.
* PreAssKickingOneLiner: Used by Binwin after the villain pulls a WhoAreYou before the final encounter of the second season.
--> '''Binwin''': We are Acquisitions Incorporated and we are here to ''acquire'' your ''ass''!
* ProperlyParanoid: In the celebrity game, when TheParty first meets the Darkmagic's house cat, it immediately becomes attached to Omin. In his [[GenreSavvy genre savviness]] he checks it out first with his holy symbol so he can be certain it isn't "some crazy sorcerer cat". The rest of the party just dismisses it as Omin being overly cautious as usual, but as it turns out [[spoiler: the cat is actually an evil [[TheMole spy]] for the [[{{Necromancer}} Wartstaffs]]]].
--> '''Jim''': [[{{Foreshadowing}} My cat is not a demon!]]
* RousingSpeech: When Gygax the cat and his undead hamburger minotaurs have ambushed the party and things seem bad, Wil steps up.
-->'''Wil''': Listen -- I've been to hell. [[ToHellAndBack And back]]. And I did ''not'' go to hell and back to let some fucking ''cat'' come up here in ''my friend's house'' and tell my friend "me and my ''hamburger train'' are gonna take your books"! [''to Gygax:''] '''[[PunctuatedForEmphasis FUCK! YOU!]]'''
* RunningGag: Plenty of examples. Jerry rolling ones, Binwin getting caught by traps, no one being able to pronounce Aeofel's name, Jim setting Binwin on fire, and Scott getting his teammates killed.
** In the 2011 Live game, every time Jim Darkmagic's cousin Olivia makes a comment, Mike mutters "Shut up Olivia."
* SarcasmMode: Mike is good at this.
** In the first PAX live game:
---> '''Mike''': Yeah, that's it. Run up and fight ''the devil''. [[WhatCouldPossiblyGoWrong How can that end bad?]]
** And in the Dark Sun campaign:
---> '''Mike''': Oh no, honestly, this is good. I was worried the desert wouldn't open up and swallow us.
* SayMyName: DARKMAGIC!!!
* ShoutOut: Plenty. It's a table-full of geeks, remember?
** [[SnakesOnAPlane "I want this motherfucking eladrin off this motherfucking plane."]]
** [[ScottPilgrim "I do a triple-flip and say: I am Ramona's eighth evil ex-boyfriend!"]]
** [[LordOfTheRings "You shall not pass..."]] and [[LordOfTheRings "What do your dwarven eyes see?"]]
** [[Film/{{Ghostbusters}} "There is no Zethir, only Zuul!"]] and [[Film/{{Ghostbusters}} "Did anyone think about a giant marshmallow man?"]]
** [[CSIMiami "Looks like these dwarfs had some..."]] *{{Beat}}* ''[[CSIMiami "years]]'' [[CSIMiami shaved off.]] [[MemeticMutation YEEEAAH!!!"]]
** [[StarWars "So be it,]] ''[[StarWars Jedi!"]]''
** [[ForrestGump "Run Omin, Run!"]] It's even said twice.
** [[TheSimpsons "The goggles do nothing!"]]
** [[WesternAnimation/SouthPark "YOU BASTARD!"]]
** [[TommyBoy "]]''[[TommyBoy Your]]'' [[TommyBoy brain has the thick candy shell on it!]]
** [[AustinPowers "I'm very badly burned"]]
** [[IndianaJones "This belongs in a museum!"]] and [[IndianaJones "Why did it have to be]] [[WhyDidItHaveToBeSnakes acid pits?!"]]
** [[ApocalypseNow "I love the smell of scorched skeleton in the morning..."]]
** Aeofel is worried about going to [[Film/OfficeSpace Dwarven pound-me-in-the-ass prison]].
** [[Film/BillAndTed "Did you go to San Dimas High School?"]]
** Wil hopes that Aeofel got resurrected in [[Film/MontyPythonAndTheHolyGrail Castle Anthrax]].
** In Ep 6 they even do it with they own work.
-->'''Scott''': "Come over here and StandByMe."
-->'''Wil''': "I don't know Scott, if that happens this might become [[PvP player versus player.]]"
** And
-->'''Chris''': [[Franchise/StarTrek Going where no one has gone before]].\\
'''Wil''': So that takes ''StandByMe'' off, ''Franchise/StarTrek'''s off... you guys are gonna need to hit ''ToySoldiers'', ''Series/{{Leverage}}'', ''Series/{{Eureka}}'', ''Series/TheBigBangTheory'', ''TheGuild'' and ''Table Top''.
* ShroudedInMyth: ''"You are not Jim Darkmagic! Jim Darkmagic is seven feet tall with a shock of red hair and eyes that blaze like the sun!"''
* SignatureMove: A literal example with Jim's Magic Missile, which scorches out '''JIM''' when it hits. Less literal but still definitely so is Aeofel's Oath, which fans of the show can recite by now.
* SmallNameBigEgo: While Jim Darkmagic ''is'' a great wizard, his ego is still way too big. He make it sound like he is the gods' gift to mankind, while in truth he is cowardly and fairly stupid.
* SureWhyNot: The majority of the character and world-building details, especially in the live shows, where pretty much anything funny becomes an official part of the universe.
-->'''Scott''': [''after Chris laughs at Jerry's suggestion that Jim Darkmagic's middle name is "Winifred"''] He laughed! It's canon now! Your name is Winifred.
* SurferDude: Rad Longhammer. You can't really tell from his accent that he was adopted and raised by dwarven nobles.
--> '''Rad''': [[TotallyRadical That would be totally rad!]] Oh, by the way, that's my name: Rad.
* TheIntern: Aeofel, which is actually funny because he is a lot more serious than the rest of the party. He generally balances the others' crazy antics.
* ThisIsForEmphasisBitch : From season 1.
--> '''Berserker Lady''': Magic missile ''me'', will you!
--> '''Jim''': [[SignatureMove That was]] ''[[SignatureMove Jim's]]'' [[SignatureMove magic missile]], [[ThisIsForEmphasisBitch bitch!]]
* ThoseTwoGuys: Invoked by the guys when they meet two crossbowmen multiple times in Season 2.
* ToHellAndBack: The entire plot of the first PAX game.
* TabletopGame/TombOfHorrors: Wil accuses Chris of recreating the Tomb of Horrors within the Ambershard Manor.
-->'''Wil''': YOU BASTARD!!! ...YOU TOMB OF HORRORS-RECREATING [[{{Metaphorgotten}} HORROR TOMBER]]!\\
'''Chris''': Horror tumor?
* TooAwesomeToUse: The scroll in season 2.
* UnnecessaryCombatRoll: Aeofel begins to do a lot of very well described air flips in the PAX games for no apparent reason.
--> '''Mike''':[[DeadpanSnarker You might have to do a roll for that]]
* VitriolicBestBuds: The entire team. Apparently no one told these guys that TrashTalk is generally meant to be directed at the opponents.
-->'''Wil''': [''to Scott, post-acid''] I hate you ''so much''!
* [[GunsAkimbo Wands Akimbo]]: Jim utilizes dual wands for his fighting style. He even created a feat for it when it was missing in NEXT.
** This leads to a TooDumbToLive moment in ep 6 where he does it even while dangling from a rope. With no hands available to hold on to the rope, he falls into the giant acid pit he just got out of.
* WhyDidItHaveToBeSnakes: When the party ventures to Hell. Aeofel, both in and out of character, has some post-traumatic stress to deal with from the last adventure.
--> '''Aeofel''': Why did it have to be acid pits?! Couldn't it have been succubi?
** Even worse in the 2012 game, when the floor gives away to reveal another acid pit, that most of the party falls into, including Aeofel. Wil is upset enough to approach the the DM, actual weapon drawn.
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->''Oh my God, you're '''horrible''' at this game!''

--->'''Jerry''': Am I dead?\\
'''Chris''': No, you're just very unconscious. Possibly for the rest of the show.

** In the Sixth Game, Omin rolled a 1 on his first roll of the entire game. You can even spot Chris Perkins taking a picture of it with his iPhone.

-->'''Wil''': Listen -- I've been to hell. And back. And I did ''not'' go to hell and back to let some fucking ''cat'' come up here in ''my friend's house'' and tell my friend "me and my ''hamburger train'' are gonna take your books"! [''to Gygax:''] '''[[PunctuatedForEmphasis FUCK! YOU!]]'''

* Ominifis Hereward Dran, CEO of Acquisitions and a half-elf cleric of Avandra. Played by Jerry Holkins, co-author of PennyArcade.
* Binwin Bronzebottom, a dwarven fighter. Played by Scott Kurtz, author of Webcomic/PvP.
* Jim Darkmagic, a narcissistic human wizard of the New Hampshire Darkmagics. Played by Mike Krahulik, co-author of PennyArcade.
* Aeofel "Al" Elhromane, the new intern of the company and an eladrin avenger of Melora. Played by Creator/WilWheaton.

** In the third PAX game, Omin rolled a 1 on his first roll while the others rolled well into the double digits.

* LiteralMetaphor: In Ep6, the DM repeatedly describes Danielle's movements in terms normally used to describe {{Spider}}s.

# '''The Keep on the Shadowfell''' sees the newly founded Acquisitions Incorporated venturing down through Shadowfell Keep in pursuit of the leader of the local wildlife (read: kobolds and goblins), Irontooth. The season is divided into two sections with each part having a different DM. The first part consists of the party's battle against Irontooth and his goblins, while the latter is about their confrontation with a death cult of Orcus. This adventure is an abridged version of ''The Keep on the Shadowfell'', the first module published for Fourth Edition.
# '''The Tower of Goldenhawk''' rejoins the group several months later as they're joined by new hire Aeofel (Creator/WilWheaton). The new lineup is hired by the town guard captain to scout out the abandoned tower of Goldenhawk. This and all subsequent adventures were written and [=DMed=] by Chris Perkins especially for the podcast, although a modified version of this one (titled Storm Tower) was published in Dungeon Magazine.
# '''The Ambershard Manor''' sends the group to help the dwarven city of Hammerfast get rid of a criminal clan. The mission quickly turns personal when Binwin learns the leaders of the bandits are the Ambershard clan, sworn enemies of the Bronzebottoms. It doesn't end well.

# '''The Last Will and Testament of James Darkmagic I''' was played live at PAX 2011. The gang are called to Jim's native land of New Hampshire following the death of his grandfather, the original Jim Darkmagic.
# '''The Lost Episode''' was played live at PAX 2012, and found our heroes tied to the altar of an imposing demon... and met by a mysterious Drow girl who seeks their help.

* '''Season 1: Keep on the Shadowfell''' sees the newly founded Acquisitions Incorporated venturing down through Shadowfell Keep in pursuit of the leader of the local wildlife (read: kobolds and goblins), Irontooth. The season is divided into two sections with each part having a different DM. The first part consists of the party's battle against Irontooth and his goblins, while the latter is about their confrontation with a death cult of Orcus. This adventure is an abridged version of ''The Keep on the Shadowfell'', the first module published for Fourth Edition.
* '''Season 2: Storm Tower''' rejoins the group several months later as they're joined by new hire Aeofel (Creator/WilWheaton). The new lineup is hired by the town guard captain to scout out the abandoned tower of Goldenhawk. This and all subsequent adventures were written and [=DMed=] by Chris Perkins especially for the podcast, although a modified version of this one (titled Storm Tower) was published in Dungeon Magazine.
* '''Season 3: Raid on Ambershard Manor''' sends the group to help the dwarven city of Hammerfast get rid of a criminal clan. The mission quickly turns personal when Binwin learns the leaders of the bandits are the Ambershard clan, sworn enemies of the Bronzebottoms. It doesn't end well.
* '''Session 4: Prisoners of Slaughterfast''' was played live at PAX 2010. The surviving members gather to perform a ritual to bring back their fallen buddy, only for it to fail for an unexpected reason: [[spoiler:Aeofel's already alive]]. To get him back, Acquisitions Incorporated are going to hell!
* '''Session 5: The Last Will and Testament of James Darkmagic I''' was played live at PAX 2011. The gang are called to Jim's native land of New Hampshire following the death of his grandfather, the original Jim Darkmagic.
* '''Session 6: The Lost Episode''' was played live at PAX 2012, and found our heroes tied to the altar of an imposing demon... and met by a mysterious Drow girl who seeks their help.

-->'''Chris''': [[Franchise/StarTrek Going where no man has gone before]]