Between the Skies is a cosmic fantasy game of travel and exploration across endless worlds, packed with procedures, tables, and inspiration for hundreds of weird, wonderful adventures through the cosmos.
I sat down with the game’s author, Huffa, to explore what makes the game so special (through the eyes of professional wrestling heel turned cosmic crusader “The Guilty Pleasure” Desmond LeFleur).
Serenity is a cosplayer and TTRPG performer, who DMs the award-nominated AP series Tragedy of Theolosian, as well as Mass Effect: Mirage on FeyWildNOut. We both wanted to get deep in our feelings, so we dove into a game of You Know Me Still, and discovered the deeply toxic relationship between two warring fantasy spies, and the massive courts they represent.
It Takes Two to Tango is a 2-player, rules-lite, GM-less tabletop RPG about rival spies sent on a mission together. Two rival spies. Two rival agencies. One major job. And unfortunately, one way through the door: Pretending to be a married couple.
I sat down with the game’s designer, Mark Vertlib, for a superheroic espionage-filled game to see how it all works.
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…
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.
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.