01
Apr
2025

[RE-RELEASE] A Land Once Magic with Andre Rivera (plus Bonus Interview: Elliot Davis)

BONUS EPISODE! In honor of the game crowdfunding, we’re re-sharing our 2023 game of A Land Once Magic, genuinely one of my favorite games ever made. We paired it with a special interview with Elliot Davis, who is publishing the game’s new physical edition, about why ALOM (and its designer, noted enemy of the show Viditya Voleti) are so great.

BACK A LAND ONCE MAGIC: https://www.backerkit.com/c/projects/moreblueberries/a-land-once-magic

In the distant future, after magic and technology rose and fell, new lives and new peoples make their way, in the shadows of the titans, as best they can…

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27
Mar
2025

SPECIAL EPISODE: Party of One Says Go Birds – 001 – The Dark Sentencer with Dillin Apelyan (LIVE)

SPECIAL EPISODE! As we take a week to rest and recover from a busy schedule, enjoy this special live recording–the first in our monthly live showcase at Unity Java in Philadelphia, PA.

GO BIRDS! For our first ever installement of Party of One Says GO BIRDS, I sat down with my dear friend and certified Coheed & Cambria superfan Dillin Apelyan (ONE SHOT, Patchwork Productions) for a game of The Dark Sentencer by Marn Lastname.

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20
Mar
2025

446 – The Magical Year of a Teenage Witch with Rene Legault

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.

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13
Mar
2025

445 – Blister City with Malcolm Critcher

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.

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06
Mar
2025

444 – Errant with Steve Morrison

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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04
Mar
2025

SPECIAL EPISODE: Party of One (Plus One) Ep. 2 – Pale Dot with Devin Nelson

BONUS EPISODE! Enjoy this special feed drop of our Patreon-exclusive side series, Party of One (Plus One), focused on sequel episodes, returning guests, and deeper dives into the games we feature on the show.

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.

For more Party of One (Plus One), check out the Patreon at www.patreon.com/jeffstormer

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28
Feb
2025

443 – HOME with Nick Gralewicz

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.

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21
Feb
2025

442 – An Altogether Different River with Nala J. Wu

Nala is an art director, award-winning illustrator, voice actor, sensitivity consultant, and Actual Play performer; you can hear them on the award-winning AP Itaewon By Night (one of my all-time faves!), as well as a million other shows across the Internet.

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

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06
Feb
2025

440 – Demonic Deals with Morgan Eilish

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.

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