Try Not To Die

a dungeons & dragons podcast started in late 2019 by a few queer-as-hell friends in new york city.

we made our show wanting to provide that home-campaign-with-your-best-friends feeling, but with excellent sound effects and a fully composed musical soundtrack! all the inside jokes and bits, all of the feelings, none of the boring table chatter.

our first campaign (2020-2023) follows gorgonzola, a teenage half-orc, who leaves her childhood cheese farm to find her long-lost mother. when zola stumbles upon a wild and magical shard along the way, she’s thrown into a mystery as old as time, one where she’ll have to confront gods and dragons, join a pirate crew, and earn a degree (yikes). it's a 100+ episode coming-of-age fantasy epic with found family, queer romance, and a cow-weasel named stilton.

our second campaign, musemakers (2023-2024) is a glamorous battle of the bards for the ultimate prize: a wish spell from one of the nine muses! it's drag race meets survivor meets hellenistic true crime. a quick 10 episodes that are a great jumping-in point to the show!

emerging from the crypts of tumblr to offer you our latest D&D campaign, Oddjobs, a sci-fi romp about two sapphic coworkers trying to pay off their debt via gigging with a cosmic adventuring corporation.

also there's a slime familiar named goo

listen to our first campaign if you: love magical girls and hate jk rowling; play stardew valley; believe you would've been a gay pirate had you only lived through the 17th century; want to cry extensively for 100+ episodes; are sensitive to dairy and also queer found families

listen to our second campaign if you: were a percy jackson kid; hate spiders and/or your mom; are not quite sure gender; have night terrors; like green juices; love to shop while one earbud plays ariana grande