Sanity Damage - D&D Actual Play
The Sanity Damage podcast is a series of TTRPG campaigns set in a multiverse cooked up by Nathan Heard and his peers. Sanity Damage's first campaign, To Whom the Sea Belongs, follows the story of an unlikely team of motley scalawags and genteel nobles as they stumble into a mind-bending conspiracy that reaches far beyond their mortal world. In this campaign, the party wrestles with the moderate good and considerable evil that arises from colonialism, and they experience the vast and diverse oceanic cultures of the homebrew world of Nera’ohan. Join the party as their sanity slips away in th...
Episode 83 (part 2): The Beginning of the End
The Dreamer stirs. The gods are dying. Nagish’s headaches foretell doom. The party reunites and make their final plans to combat the Collective. This is the beginning of the end.
Episode 83 (part 1): The Beginning of the End
The Dreamer stirs. The gods are dying. Nagish’s headaches foretell doom. The party reunites and make their final plans to combat the Collective. This is the beginning of the end.
Episode 82 (part 2): Torronation
After Torr’s coronation, the two parties plan their next moves.
Episode 82 (part 1): Torronation
The tide turns in the battle, and the party makes new plans for the nation of Shikyodai.
Episode 81 (part 2): Double Agents
New alliances tenuously forged, the heroes return to Shikogawa, where Torr challenges Emperor Bosunaga to a duel to the death on a marble bridge over a pool of lava.
Episode 81 (part 1): Double Agents
Upon arriving in Monisokotan, the heroes meet Zugchigaungu. But all is not as it seems, and it appears that the heroes are not the only ones looking to navigate fraught alliances.
Only (Lethal) Fins!
While the Nathan is away the crew will play! Join the cast of Sanity Damage as they play Lethal Company, answer questions, and discuss campaign theories!
Episode 80 (part 2): Enemies Abound
After speaking with Bosunaga, the heroes secure passage on an airship and head to Monisokotan, home of the resistance, and allegedly where the heroes anticipate meeting a much anticipated foe.
Episode 80 (part 1): Enemies Abound
In the sewers beneath Shikogawa, the heroes meet frogfolk that are orchestrating a resistance against the dread emperor Bosunaga. After a night of strategizing and doing shrooms, the heroes come up with a plan and approach Bosunaga for an audience.
Episode 79 (part 2): It’s the Economy
The heroes continue their shopping spree despite the city’s exorbitant prices. They finally head into the sewers beneath the city in search of “the Resistance.”
Episode 79 (part 1): It’s the Economy
Having arrived in Shikogawa, capital of Shikyodai, the heroes go on a shopping spree only to find that everything has become back-breakingly expensive under the new emperor, Bosunaga. Spies lurk in the shadows and average citizens trade in drugs rather than currency.
Episode 78 (part 2): We’re Taking the Sarcophagus
The party set sail for Shikyodai, witnessing a terrifying storm and arriving to an uncertain city coping with a recent regime change.
Episode 78 (part 1): We’re Taking the Sarcophagus
Abraham faces the consequences of his previous deals. The party loots the pyramid and makes a new friend in a doomed village.
Episode 77 (part 2): Godslayer
Atahualpa, a mummy lord with a dark history, battles the heroes in the heart of the pyramid.
Episode 77 (part 1): Godslayer
The heroes reach the grand crypt at the base of the pyramid and plan for a coming confrontation, choosing each of their next moves with great care.
Episode 76 (part 2): The Cursed Isles
The party delve into the pyramid, contending with numerous traps and studying ancient hieroglyphs depicting the key events of a past World Storm.
Episode 76 (part 1): The Cursed Isles
The party washes up on the mysterious island chain with a dark past. After scouting, they set out to explore some ancient ruins and the pyramid overlooking them.
Episode 75 (part 2): World Breaker
With land in sight, the party is hopeful for a reprieve. But they are intercepted by Nyarlatili, the Avatar of Cthulhu… who invites them to parley over a strangely human meal.
Episode 75 (part 1): World Breaker
After being devastated by a kraken on the open seas, the party floats adrift. But the ocean is a brutal and unforgiving force of nature.
Sanity Damage Episode 74 Part 2
The battle rages on against the Kraken. Can the heroes prevail?
Sanity Damage Episode 74 Part 1
The heroes face a brutal attack from a kraken, mind flayers, and Chomp Razorfin, the champion of Nyarlatili.
Only Fins! To Whom the Sea Belongs
Join Nathan, Cody, Pippin, and Maggie in a round table discussion about the campaign and about a variety of characteristically unrelated topics, such as the moon rusting.
Episode 73 (part 2): Stowaway
The party argues about what to do with their unexpected guest, eventually convincing their pirate crew to keep the stowaway on board as long as she pulls her weight. Penelope receives a message from a friend, and danger lurks in the water.
Episode 73 (part 1): Stowaway
We return to Cliffsbay, where Abraham, Penelope, Arf, and Torr prepare for their voyage to Shikyodai. They acquire a ship, a crew… and a stowaway.
Episode 72 (part 2): The End of an Era
At Lake Sankuriang, a devastating battle breaks out. The party holds their own, but were they too late? And what does this mean for the fate of the world?
Episode 72 (part 1): The End of an Era
The cottage in the jungle holds a nasty surprise… and some troubling revelations. The party chooses to push on through the night, trudging through heavier and heavier rain before they arrive at Sankuriang’s lake.
Episode 71 (part 2): Welcome to the Jungle
The party immediately sets out into the jungles of Keluarumah and are accosted by dreadful ahools. Sustaining scrapes and bruises, they press forward and come across a cottage that seems to be straight out of the Legend of Sankuriang.
Episode 71 (part 1): Welcome to the Jungle
Arriving in the coastal capital of Keluarumah, the party goes on a shopping spree, Klakkr makes an appearance at a Tea and Honey Quarterly office, and the party learn that illithids might be looking for the same artifact that they are.
Episode 70 (part 2): A Jaded Rat and Lots of Drugs
Seline finds too many drugs. The party learns the history of the Boat of Sankuriang and the Jade Jewel, leading Jack to ponder questions of cosmology. Jack, Klakkr, and Moriarty tend to an emaciated and broken-spirited Hudson Swift.
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Episode 70 (part 1): A Jaded Rat and Lots of Drugs
Seline finds too many drugs. The party learns the history of the Boat of Sankuriang and the Jade Jewel, leading Jack to ponder questions of cosmology. Jack, Klakkr, and Moriarty tend to an emaciated and broken-spirited Hudson Swift.
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Episode 69 (part 2): The Debtor's Penance
The desperate battle rages on as the crew battle Thousand Tooth Tom in an effort to rescue Hudson Swift.
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Episode 69 (part 1): The Debtor's Penance
A desperate battle erupts as the crew battle Thousand Tooth Tom in an effort to rescue Hudson Swift.
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Episode 68 (part 2): Shock Therapy
Seline leads the rest of the party to follow up on her lead with the Dusk noble family. They meet Freya Dusk, a politician who went insane after a confrontation with a mind flayer who calls himself Nyarlatili, the Avatar of Cthulhu.
Back on the sea, the party encounters a dreaded foe… and a long-lost friend.
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Episode 68 (part 1): Shock Therapy
The treasure crew arrive at the capital of Nerao and plan an overnight stay to repair their boat. Klakkr and Seline lead a night out on the town, and Seline’s quest to get in on Nerao’s real estate leads to a surprising discovery.
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Episode 67 (part 2): Plunder the Booty
The treasure hunters speak with Neraoese patrol agents and learn that mind flayers are threatening the underwater nations as well as those on the shore. Back onboard the Stormbreaker, Jack has a troubling dream.
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Episode 67 (part 1): Plunder the Booty
Moriarty leads a diving expedition to plunder the sunken Taiyangese destroyer, but another crew of plunderers battle them for rights to the ship.
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Episode 66 (part 2): High Seas Skirmish
The treasure hunters learn more of the legend of Sangkuriang. As they sail deeper into contested waters, they are accosted by a pair of Taiyangese warships.
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Episode 66 (part 1): High Seas Skirmish
The treasure hunters learn more of the legend of Sangkuriang. As they sail deeper into contested waters, they are accosted by a pair of Taiyangese warships.
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Episode 65 (part 2): Whatever Floats your Boat
The treasure hunters set sail for Keluarumah, braving hurricane winds and an enormous sea monster.
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Episode 65 (part 1): Whatever Floats your Boat
Jack, Klakkr, Moriarty, and Seline spend the day fixing up their new warship, shopping for supplies, and gathering a crew. They intend to sail for Keluarumah, reembarking on their quest for the artifacts that compose the legendary Jeushpitar Lyre.
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