The Billowing Hilltop - A D&D Podcast
A Dungeons and Dragons actual play podcast. Ancient Brits play D&D 5e as they lurch headlong through the classic Paizo Age of Worms Adventure Path! Join us at our DnD table for a mix of adventure, laughs and hapless incompetence. But mostly hapless incompetence.
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- Update frequency
- every 6 days
- Average duration
- 58 minutes
- Episodes
- 271
- Years Active
- 2019 - 2025
Episode 70 – Ghast Christmas
Hoove yourself a scary brittle Christmas! After our traditional Yuletide rules a̶r̶g̶u̶m̶e̶n̶t̶ discussion we’re back to the shrine of horror. Our heroes are plunged into the void by their demonic to…
01:33:54 |
Thu 23 Dec 2021
Episode 69 – Here Comes the Hammer
Our heroes are in the thick of combat with the terrifying ‘Hooves’ and his undead minions. Can they survive long enough to unlock the mysteries of the secret shrine and its gargantuan grub-baby?
00:52:02 |
Thu 16 Dec 2021
Episode 68 – Hooves Got a Friend
It is time for our heroes to face the horrors of the secret chambers beneath the arena. There are wormy zombies. There are hinge-headed screamy ghouls. But there is something else. Something demonic…
01:02:27 |
Thu 09 Dec 2021
Episode 67 – Down in the Coenoby at Midnight
Our heroes have made it through to the second round! They celebrate their victory and reaching 8th level before resuming their investigation of the secret chambers under the arena.
00:56:16 |
Thu 02 Dec 2021
Episode 66 – The Slaader They Come
It’s time for the Flayer Slayers to fight in their first bout of the Games! What fiendishness have Newt the Site from Orbit got in store for our heroes?
01:06:12 |
Thu 25 Nov 2021
Episode 65 – Burple Drain
OK, so there’s a gargantuan necrotic death-worm growing under the arena. That clarifies things nicely. Can our heroes find out more? Or are they running out of time before their first match?
01:09:53 |
Thu 18 Nov 2021
Episode 64 – A New Chapter of Grub
What have our heroes discovered behind the wine cellar? Ghouls certainly, but is there something more? And should they investigate now or regroup?
01:03:21 |
Thu 11 Nov 2021
Episode 63 – Secrets & Alcohol
The grand banquet is over, the draw for the first round has been made, and all is quiet beneath the arena. It’s time for our heroes to start sneaking around after lights out, looking for some action!
01:07:32 |
Thu 04 Nov 2021
Episode 62 – Luck of the Draw
The Flayer Slayers have entered the Games of Misrule. Now it’s time to see who they will face in the first round! Will it be Filge’s Gravediggers? Or perhaps the mysterious Lost and the Damned? Join …
00:49:41 |
Thu 28 Oct 2021
Episode 61 – Stadium Arcadium
‘Are you not entertained?!’ We begin Book 5 of the Age of Worms and our heroes are off to the gladiatorial Games of Misrule! But who will they face in the tourney? Could there be some faces from thei…
00:46:07 |
Thu 21 Oct 2021
Episode 60 – For Those About to Vrock
Zyrxog is slain (slayed? slewn?) but his Halls still contain secrets to be discovered. Why was the Mindflayer set on our heroes’ destruction? And what of his museum of arcane treasures?
01:01:48 |
Thu 14 Oct 2021
Episode 59 – Jumpin’ Hack Slash
This is it. The showdown. The final confrontation with Zyrxog the Mindflayer. Our heroes must somehow regroup and return to the fight or all may be lost. Will they fall at the last hurdle, or take a …
01:24:11 |
Thu 07 Oct 2021
Episode 58 – Illithid Affairs
Do not adjust your sets, this really is Episode 58! And it’s end-of-level-boss time! Our heroes have tracked down their tentacled nemesis, but are the hunters going to become the hunted? And then the…
00:48:34 |
Thu 30 Sep 2021
Episode 57 – When You Fish Upon a Jar
Our gallant group have reached the inner sanctum of their Mindflayer nemesis. There they will visit a museum, set fire to things and have fun with a goldfish. But first they must resist the iron ment…
01:02:35 |
Thu 23 Sep 2021
Episode 56 – The Squids Don’t Stand a Chance
Our heroes find themselves at a pair of tall, ivory double-doors marked with the symbol of the Mindflayer! Have they found his lair at last? And what abominations may stand between them and the secre…
00:57:08 |
Thu 16 Sep 2021
Episode 55 – Get Your Goat On
We’re not kidding around here, the battle in the Mindflayer caverns has finally reached its conclusion! No, really. There is the troublesome detail of some brain zombies to deal with but otherwise we…
01:00:31 |
Thu 09 Sep 2021
Episode 54 – I Don’t Want to Miss a Thing
Sometimes the dice are your friends, sometimes… not so much. Sessions may be a worshipper of Miss Fortune, but the Lady Luck abandons us all as the battle in the Mindflayer caverns stumbles towards i…
00:53:21 |
Thu 02 Sep 2021
Episode 53 – Poison Arrow
The inter-dimensional one-eyed goop greebly is bearing down on Sessions. The caverns are overrun with malevolent minions. Hit points are in short supply. Basically, things don’t look great for our he…
00:49:53 |
Thu 26 Aug 2021
Episode 52 – We on a Swarm
The trickle of foes has become a flood and the skirmish in the caverns has turned into a right old scrap! Can our heroes prevail?
00:46:22 |
Thu 19 Aug 2021
Episode 51 – Get Off of My Cloud
What in the name of Oort is this one-eyed, tree-like, alien thing? Whatever it is, it’s vaporised itself and is steaming around, causing chaos! Can our heroes step on the gas?
01:06:13 |
Thu 12 Aug 2021
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