Rene is one of the founding members of DMs After Dark, and the host of Rene Plays Games, an actual play podcast focused on smaller published TTRPGs. (If you like the kinds of gameplay experiences we feature on this show, you’d really dig it.) We sat down to make something weird, joyful, and really special in a game of The Magical Year of a Teenage Witch.
Malcolm is the Creative Director at BRINK Media, and co-creator of This Is Propaganda, a narrative nonfiction podcast that breaks down the hidden influence of propaganda in our modern lives, and how propaganda (or as it would come to be known, Public Relations) have shaped our entire culture today. We sat down to play Blister City, a game about the bloody realities of Martian revolution, and about taking back the world from the fascists who control it.
The folks who ruined Mars have names and addresses. You have a crowbar, and a dream. Make them pay.
Steve is the host of Errant Adventures, an actual play podcast focused on singleplayer RPGs. Neither of us can pass up a good name pun, so we sat down to play Errant by friend of the show Christine Prevas. We told the story of a knight of the Feytouched Court, on a mission from peace… provided they reach their destination with their soul intact.
Bonus: Head to the Errant Adventures feed to hear Steve and I set sail in Ironsworn: Sundered Isles!
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Devin is the designer of Pale Dot, a collaborative storytelling game for 2-5 players about a crew of non-human cosmonauts leaving their planet to explore a strange solar system, finding threads to unravel the unknown along the way. He takes us through a session of the game, and we get real weird real quick.
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HOME is a mapmaking RPG of Kaiju vs. Mecha, in which pilots step into the shoes of colossal war machines to do battle with invading monsters. Can they survive the battle, or will the Kaiju tear their home to pieces?
I sit down with the game’s creator Nick Gralewicz to find out.
We sat down to explore a town, those that left and came back, and those that returned in one of my all-time favorite RPGs, An Altogether Different River.
Episode art by Nala J. Wu
Christian is an Award-Winning TTRPG performer, educator, and the organizer of The Force Within, a 50-person BIPOC Star Wars TTRPG streaming event. We sat down to play Clever Girl, a two-player game about the lone survivor a malfunctioning dinosaur theme park, and the roving band of raptors in hot pursuit.
Demonic Deals is a two-player TTRPG about a summoner, a demon, and a contract. You want something. The demon wants your soul.
I sat down with the game’s designer, Morgan Eilish, to get a taste of the game in action.