‘Worlds Beyond Number’ Makes Big Changes After Its Next Arc
Worlds Beyond Number, the D&D podcast your friend won’t shut up about, is about to make a huge change that has always been coming.
Worlds Beyond Number is an amazing D&D podcast starring a cast of some of the most familiar faces from D&D streams like Dimension 20 and D&D Live and even Critical Role. Aabria Iyengar, Brennan Lee Mulligan, Erika Ishii, and Lou Wilson collectively make up an easy 20% of all D&D YouTube shorts. You’ve probably seen them on DropOut shows like Game Changer and Dimension 20, or playing along with the cast of Critical Role.
Except, secretly, Worlds Beyond Number isn’t just a D&D podcast. It’s all right there in the name. Worlds Beyond Number. And alongside their main campaign, a D&D game titled The Wizard, the Witch, and the Wild One, they’ve played a few short games in other systems. And now, it looks like a new game, and a new GM is stepping up to take centerstage (perhaps for the next two years, who can say).
The Next Chapter for Worlds Beyond Number Kicks Off… in Space
The four announced the upcoming change in a new video posted to the Worlds Beyond Number YouTube Channel last night. The new chapter, which should be live today, marks the beginning of Arc 4 for The Wizard The Witch and The Wild One, will the the last one set in the world of Umora, at least for a while. If you haven’t been following along, WWW is the gang’s D&D campaign in the style of the kinds of games you might play at home. Progression is slow, the story puts the players at the center, and it feels like it can go on for years.
And it likely will.
Just with some space in between them. And I mean that as literally as a metaphor can get. Because after Arc 4 concludes, and a brief break, Worlds Beyond Number will launch its next big centerstage campaign, and it will be set in the one place left uncorrupted by capitalism: space.
As announced in the video, the new game will be helmed by Iyengar, whose DM credentials are well-established. And it will be set in space. Mulligan and co. are no strangers to space. One of my favorite Dimension 20 seasons was Starstruck Odyssey, which used the Star Wars 5E hack as its rules system. No word on what system the new game will use. But whatever it is, we’ll all find out soon enough.
And the fact that the podcast is switching up stories is an exciting one. If you’ve ever listened to a podcast like Friends at the Table, you know that the best stories are the ones where you take the time to tell them. Like FatT’s ‘Divine Cycle’ which is a sci-fi series set acrossa span of 50,000 years, and four different “seasons” that started back in 2015.
This model of play in a campaign, tell a story until its done (for now) and move on before revisiting the world, if not the characters, is fantastic – it keeps things fresh, stretches out your brain, and helps keep you from burning out on the thing you love. At any rate, the new and last (for now) arc of The Wizard, the Witch, and the Wild One is out today.
Happy adventuring!
