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

Continue reading →

Posted by Admin in Actual Play, 0 comments

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.

Continue reading →

Posted by Admin in Actual Play, 0 comments

438 – Marvelous Mutations and Merry Musicians! with Aaron Joy

Aaron is the host and narrator of Even If It Kills Me, narrative documentary podcast, chronicling the lives of Jon, Ryan, Mac and Pete as they set out across the country and try to make it as rockstars in the bygone era of the ‘00s. We sat down to play Marvelous Mutations & Merry Musicians, a game about a Band of travelling mutant musicians in the post-post-Apocalypse, who travel from town to town, performing concerts and doing whatever it is they like to do besides that.

Continue reading →

Posted by Admin in Actual Play

437 – The Ultimate Fantasy Character Creator with Jeff Stormer (feat. Riley Hopkins)

Jeff is the author of The Ultimate Fantasy Character Creator, a collection of nearly 100 exercises to perfect your own fantasy character for online worlds, social videos, in-person meetups, self-published novels, and more. He is also the host of award-winning podcast Party of One, an actual play podcast focused on 2-player tabletop RPGs. (Shh, just go with it.)

Guest host Riley Hopkins sits down with Jeff to run through some of the exercises in the book, and we finally learn the answer to the question: Who is on Brenda from Scenes From an Italian Restaurant’s enemies list?

Continue reading →

Posted by Admin in Actual Play, Character Creation

436 – Blood Yule with Brandon Leon-Gambetta

It’s Christmas Eve and you know that means–time for some holiday magic with my dear friend Brandon Leon-Gambetta. This year, we’re fighting off evil holiday spirits in Blood Yule, a winter-themed expansion for Bar the Windows, Bolt the Doors. Can we survive murderous elves, robot toys, and The Toymaker? Listen and find out!

Continue reading →

Posted by Admin in Actual Play

435 – Last Tea Shop with Depthe

Depthe is an actual play performer and designer, who you can hear on Total Party Kiss, as well as a myriad other places across the Internet. We sat down for a truly lovely game of Last Tea Shop, a solo journaling RPG about a witch managing a tea shop on the border of the living and the dead. This one gets real emotional, y’all.

Continue reading →

Posted by Admin in Actual Play

433 – Mothership with Jess Parks

Jess is a Hollywood sound professional and DM of I Seduce the Dragon, a D&D AP podcast in which rocket scientist, a cowgirl, a pornstar, and a mom walk into a dungeon … and those are just the players. We blast off to the horrifying reaches of the unknown in Mothership, the award-winning sci-fi horror RPG!

Continue reading →

Posted by Admin in Actual Play