The Adventure Zone

"Justin, Travis, and Griffin McElroy from My Brother, My Brother and Me have recruited their dad Clint for a campaign of high adventure. Join the McElroys as they find their fortune and slay an unconscionable number of ... you know, kobolds or whatever in ... The Adventure Zone."

The Adventure Zone is a real-play TTRPG podcast (and to a lesser extent, graphic novel series) run by the McElroy brothers and their dad. It is hosted on the Maximum Fun Network, and released fortnightly.

Podcast
Initially a one-off MBMBAM filler episode, popular request led The Adventure Zone to become a full-time podcast. It ended up eclipsing the original in popularity, but that didn't happen until later.

Balance
Main article: Campaign 1: The Balance Arc

Originally simply called "The Adventure Zone", the Balance campaign kicked off the show. The first arc, Here There Be Gerblins, began as a game of Dungeons and Dragons running the Lost Mine of Phandelver adventure, but quickly diverged from the path of the module and became its own story serving to lead into the larger picture of the Balance arc.

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Experimental era
Main articles: Campaign 2: Commitment, Campaign 3: Amnesty, and Campaign 4: Dust

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Amnesty
Main article: Campaign 3: Amnesty

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Future of the podcast
In the final episodes of Amnesty, Griffin has stated that whatever is next for the podcast has already been planned and that the McElroys are excited to reveal it once Amnesty is over. Griffin has also stated prior that the show will likely not do another round of experimental arcs, due to their non-viability for a longform show.

Primary campaigns

 * Campaign 1: The Balance Arc
 * Campaign 3: Amnesty

Experimental arcs

 * Campaign 2: Commitment
 * Campaign 3: Amnesty (first arc)
 * Campaign 4: Dust

Maximum Fun Drive

 * MaxFunDrive Bonus Campaign: (K)nights
 * MaxFunDrive Bonus Campaign: Elementary
 * MaxFunDrive Bonus Campaign: Fur

Live show one-shots

 * TAZ: Hootenanny
 * TAZ: Inheritance

Trivia

 * The brothers and their father communicate through Skype to play audio-only games of tabletop RPGs. This is done due to the family's separation geologically, and helps make the podcast experience more genuine.
 * Griffin McElroy has been the Dungeon and/or Game Master for both of the show's primary campaigns, Balance and Amnesty.
 * The show's arc names follow a rough and slightly jumbled alphabetical progression. At some point during the 2017-2018 experimental arc period of the show, the McElroys made a conscious recognition of this and a conscious continuation of it.
 * The first arc was Balance, followed by Commitment, Amnesty, and Dust. However, Amnesty was picked back up after the conclusion of Dust, interrupting the sequence somewhat.
 * Complicating things more, during the Balance era the (K)nights arc started as bonus content, using up two possible letters and interrupting the sequence.
 * Though Amnesty continues to run, games entitled Elementary, Fur, Hootenanny, and Inheritance have all been played chronologically respectively as live show content or Maximum Fun Drive bonus content.
 * Due to the presence of an arc with every letter from A to K excepting G, it is very likely that the next TAZ arc will begin with G.
 * Because of the general TAZ cover art which features six different art designs representing each main series campaign so far as well as two unidentified pieces, fans have theorized that the spaceship-themed art represents a future arc titled TAZ: Galaxy.