Embrace the Chaos: Welcome to the Feast

Pull up a chair, darling. Don’t mind the stains. They’re mostly jam. Welcome to Mimic in the Pantry, where Dungeons & Dragons is served raw and wriggling. It’s a podcast. It’s a meal. It’s a bad idea you’ll want seconds of.

This isn’t your grandpa’s noble quest through shining kingdoms and polite dragons. No. This is a dinner party where the cutlery bites back and laughter echoes through the dark halls.

So, what happens when a handful of misfits, a Dungeon Master with too much imagination, and a creature that lives in your cupboard all sit down to play?Let’s lift the lid and find out.

The Appetite for Adventure: What Dungeons & Dragons Means Here

At its core, D&D is a shared fever dream. A mix of dice, storytelling, and the occasional emotional breakdown. Every episode of Mimic in the Pantry starts around that same table, snacks scattered, candles flickering, a sense that someone might not leave the session entirely intact.

Our Dungeon Master, Harry, calls it a feast. The kind where players can gorge themselves on fantasy, foolishness, and the thrill of a perfectly rolled twenty.

Here, monsters aren’t just something to slay. They’re mirrors, temptations, reminders that even heroes have teeth.

Session Zero: The Calm Before the Chaos

Before a single sword swings or spell flies, our players take part in what we call Session Zero , the “lines and veils” talk.

Think of it as setting the emotional table. It’s where everyone decides what’s fair game for the story and what should stay buried in the pantry.

Harry makes it clear: safety comes first. Every boundary is respected. Every player is seen. Because horror only hits right when everyone’s laughing between the screams.

This quiet, deliberate ritual is what lets the rest of the chaos shine. It’s trust. It’s consent. It’s a promise that what happens in Gormantilia might scar your imagination, but not your soul.

Meet the Feast: Our Party of Delicious Disaster

Now to the main course, our cast. Each player brings something bizarre, broken, and oddly beautiful to the table.

• Cadence Hollow, our anxious wizard with unnervingly small feet and a dangerously large ego.

• Morrigan Evaneld, a Drow Paladin with a spider named Shadow who might actually be the better conversationalist.

• Connor, a Bard so charming it should be illegal. If seduction were a weapon, he’d be dual-wielding.

• Deadhorn, the Barbarian. Loud, loyal, and one bad decision away from spontaneous combustion.

  
  

They’re a strange little family,  flawed, funny, and endlessly entertaining. Watching them stumble through the world is like watching a drunk chef balance knives. You know someone’s going to bleed, but it’s going to be spectacular.

Homebrew Havoc: Stirring the Pot

What makes Mimic in the Pantry special isn’t just the storytelling. It’s the homebrew chaos simmering beneath it. Our table thrives on rule-bending. Death-saving throws? Secret. Flashbacks mid-combat? Absolutely. Trading a death save for a critical hit? Tempting fate never tasted so good. These twists turn every roll into a heartbeat and every fight into theater. Players gamble their lives for glory, and sometimes, just for the drama of it.

It’s D&D the way it’s meant to be played: dangerously.

Read our full homebrew list at https://www.mimicinthepantry.com/behindthescreen

The World of Gormantilia: Beauty in Decay

Welcome to Gormantilia, a land that’s seen better days, and worse dinners.

Once a thriving kingdom, now it reeks of rot and rain. The soil’s gone sour. The forests whisper in fungal tongues. The air tastes like memory and mold.

It’s a place where the living cling to hope like mold to bread, and every shadow feels a little too alive.

This is where our story begins. Not with heroes rising, but with the leftovers, the strange, the cursed, the hungry,  daring to take a bite out of destiny.

Why This Feast Matters

Mimic in the Pantry isn’t just another D&D actual play. It’s a blend of theater, friendship, and delightful catastrophe.

The players bring their whole selves to the table,  laughter, nerves, chaos, heart. The chemistry is infectious. You don’t just listen; you join them. You feel like you’re right there, dice in hand, ready to ruin your own life for a laugh.

Every episode is part horror, part comedy, part group therapy session that went horribly right.

The Aftertaste: Come, Take a Bite In the end, Mimic in the Pantry is a love letter to storytelling, to the art of pretending, and to the joy of falling apart together.

It’s funny. It’s unholy. It’s everything that makes Dungeons & Dragons such a strange and perfect beast. So grab a fork, brave listener. Sit down with us. The feast is still warm.

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