Denver, Colorado · One mile high
About Us
Friends who became adventurers. Adventurers who became a problem.
Who we are
There is no studio.
There is a table.
Mile High Dragons is a group of friends in Denver who record what happens at their table and put it on the internet. Somebody rolls badly at a decisive moment roughly once an episode. Nothing is scripted, nothing is re-recorded, and the plan rarely survives contact with the party.
We run two campaigns now. They are not the same show and they are not trying to be. Rovaksole is the long one — a continent, a prophecy, and eighteen entries of consequences. The Dark Fortress is five levels of dwarven megadungeon and considerably more swearing. If one of them is not for you, there is a reasonable chance the other one is.
Recorded a mile above sea level and several leagues below good judgment.
Same table.
Different weather.
Campaign One · 22 entries
Rovaksole
The long chronicle. A homebrew continent on a planet called Tuandra, built from cosmic chaos down to the tavern menus, with a prophecy hanging over it and a party who keep walking into the middle of things. Lore-heavy, consequence-heavy, and it rewards watching in order.
Dark fantasy played straight, with jokes that survive it.
The campaign pageCampaign Two · 3 episodes
The Dark Fortress
The rowdy little brother. Five strangers take a job to loot a hundred-year-old dwarven fortress and find it a good deal less abandoned than advertised. Looser, funnier, less lore to keep straight, and you can start at episode one this week without any homework.
Strong language, adult humor, and one party member named Doom Sloot.
The campaign pageWhat you're
actually watching
If you have never watched an actual play before: it is a group of people playing a tabletop roleplaying game while recording it. That is the whole format. Nobody is acting from a script.
The dice decide, and we live with it
Nothing is written ahead of time about who wins a fight. When a roll goes badly at the worst possible moment, that is the episode now. Several of the better moments in both campaigns exist because somebody rolled a 20 on something nobody planned for, and several of the worse ones exist for the opposite reason.
Two dungeon masters, two jobs
Graham runs Rovaksole — every doom scroll, red dragon and reality-tearing Snap arrives through him. Markus Maximus runs The Dark Fortress, and plays Drax at the other table, which means he spends half his week building problems and the other half hitting them with an axe.
You do not need to know Dungeons & Dragons
You genuinely do not. The rules get explained when they matter and ignored when they do not. If you can follow a heist film without knowing how a safe works, you can follow this.
It is not a family show
Expect swearing, violence, and adult humor, more of it in The Dark Fortress than in Rovaksole. It is a dark fantasy show about people stabbing things in caves. Treat it as roughly TV-MA and you will not be surprised.
New episodes as we record them
We publish as sessions get recorded and edited, on YouTube and as a podcast on Spotify. Subscribing in either place is the reliable way to hear about a new one.
Eleven characters,
two dungeon masters
Listed by character. The people behind them know who they are.
- LunaCleric
- Primo BalduchiRogue
- DraxBarbarian
- AndreWarlock
- Juniper Von SnovailSurvivor
- BarakaSeer
- GrahamDungeon Master
- Doom SlootTiefling
- KaanBlades & Bow
- KayaqLeopard-Folk
- Pasm & RumbleScout & Construct
- Toe MaasTortle
- Markus MaximusDungeon Master
The Dark Fortress table rotates. If somebody is missing one week, their character usually has an opinion about it when they get back.
Reasonable things
to ask
Where should I start?
Depends which show. For Rovaksole, start with the Prologue — it is narrated lore with no dice, twenty minutes, and it makes everything afterward land properly. If you would rather get straight to the table, Entry I works fine.
For The Dark Fortress, start at Episode 1. There are only three, there is no backlog to catch up on, and you will be current inside an afternoon.
Do I need to have played D&D?
No. The rules get explained when they matter to the story and skipped when they do not. Plenty of people watch actual plays having never rolled a die in their lives.
Watch or listen?
Is there a way to keep track of all this?
Two. The Chronicle is every entry from both campaigns with a written recap, sorted by arc and filterable by show. And there is a companion app you can install on your phone. It remembers which episodes of both campaigns you've watched and puts the next one a tap away, carries the codex of both parties, and has dice for your own games.
How far behind am I?
Rovaksole is twenty-two entries in, which is a real commitment — but the character primer in the appendix will get you oriented in one sitting if you would rather jump to a recent episode. The Dark Fortress is three episodes old. You are not behind on that one.
Can I play with you?
Both tables are full, and the Dark Fortress roster rotates among people we already know. If you have something specific in mind — a crossover, a guest spot, an event — send a raven and we will read it.
What is The Trial of the Twenty?
A small thing we built: five trials, one die, one reroll for the whole run. You throw a d20 across a brazier-lit slab in your browser and find out what the dice think of you. It takes about three minutes and it is not canon.
Who made The Dark Fortress?
The campaign is unofficial fan content based on the MargoMods Forge of Fury Companion by Andie Margolskee, from the DM's Guild. Not approved or endorsed by Wizards of the Coast. Portions of the materials used are property of Wizards of the Coast. ©Wizards of the Coast LLC.
Send a raven
General
Questions, corrections, kind words, and people telling us we got a rules call wrong.
info@milehighdragons.comFollow along
New episodes, clips, and whatever the party did that was too short to be an entry.
Where we are
Denver, Colorado. One mile high, which is the joke and also the elevation.
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