Dungeon Crawler Carl (Spectator / Streaming)

Start Date & Time Thursday - 9:00 PM CST
Duration 3.0 hours
Type Other Event
System None
Location Mendota 3 at table 171
Gaming Experience Newcomers Welcome
Age Range Adult Players Only (18+)
Host Dan Taylor
With Elisa Teague
John Kovalic
LaTia Jacquise

Ticket Information

Cost $0.00
Availability 50 of 75 available

CHAOS & CRAWLERS

New Quest: Welcome to Chaos & Crawlers!

A live, actual-play Dungeon Crawler Carl Roleplaying Game show, presented by Catacombs & Comedians. The players on stage are a group of hopeful meat-based lifeforms making objectively poor decisions as they navigate traps, monsters, and a rules system specifically designed to test friendships, morals, and one’s ability not to scream under pressure. They were selected because they are professionals at handling silence, bombing gracefully, and masking panic with humor. None of those skills will help them here.

The audience will experience…

  • Crunchy, cinematic combat that escalates far beyond reason.
  • Characters that begin confident and end… dubious.
  • An omnipresent game master providing helpful guidance, passive-aggressive commentary, and occasional emotional damage.
  • Characters who die funny, embarrassed, and regret everything.
  • A tone that oscillates between stand-up set and survival horror with alarming speed.

What the audience won’t experience…

  • Predictable pacing
  • Characters making “the smart choice”
  • Plot armor
  • Emotional closure
  • A bathroom break at a convenient time

Why? Because comedy under pressure is funny. Because dice don’t respect punchlines. Because watching comedians face a dungeon optimized for entertainment ROI is the purest form of art Borant allows. Throwing amusing entertainers into a lethal dungeon ecosystem engineered for spectacle, suffering, and shareholder value is a hoot. They tell jokes. They roll dice. They learn (too late) that corporate-sanctioned entertainment is still entertainment first.

New Achievement: “Spectator with Questionable Taste”

Reward: Entertainment. Laughter. Lingering dread. Mild existential collapse.

Special Guest

Dan Taylor

Introduced to Dungeons & Dragons in 1977 (along with Star Wars, Atari, and The Hobbit), Dan has been a gaming nerd ever since. He is the creator, producer, game master (and sometimes player) of Catacombs & Comedians, which features stand-up comedians sitting down at a table live on stage for an actual-play experience in comedy clubs throughout the Midwest and South. At conventions, he tasks TTRPG creators and personalities to do the same in front of con attendees. Besides D&D, Catacombs & Comedians has made a joke of Call of Cthulhu, Daggerheart, Traveller, and other tabletop roleplaying games. He also wrote the Klingon sidebar/fluff material for Modiphius' Star Trek: Adventures. (Yes, even Klingons need written fluff.) Outside the TTRPG-verse, Dan's creative endeavours include co-creating the fan-favorite comic book (Super) Hero Happy Hour and serving as Editor at IDW Publishing on titles such as Star Trek, The Transformers, and 30 Days of Night. Dan has also written the swashbuckling novella, Pirat Tales: Legend of the Cat o' Nine Tails, featuring rats as pirates. Dan lived the first 50 years of his life in Southern California before moving to the Nashville, TN area, where he now lives with his wife, daughter, two dogs, and two cats.