Which podcast is a Dungeons & Dragons actual-play featuring the McElroy family?

The Dungeons & Dragons actual-play podcast featuring the McElroy family is The Adventure Zone. Brothers Justin, Travis, and Griffin McElroy play alongside their father, Clint, combining tabletop role-playing with improvisational comedy, character-driven storytelling, and an evolving fantasy narrative.

The show began as a special episode of the McElroy brothers' advice podcast My Brother, My Brother and Me. In 2014, the brothers started playing Dungeons & Dragons with Clint during Justin's paternity leave, using the fifth-edition Starter Set and its Lost Mine of Phandelver adventure as an early foundation. The experiment proved popular enough to become its own Maximum Fun podcast in December 2014.

The Adventure Zone is often associated with its first major campaign, Balance, but it has continued through multiple campaigns using different settings and, at times, different role-playing systems. That variety can cause confusion with Critical Role or other actual-play shows, yet the defining clue here is the McElroy family lineup.