Designer as Guest

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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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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31
Oct
2024

430 – Ever Dream This Man? with Adam Vass

Adam Vass is one of my favorite game designers in the world, full stop. And I don’t say that lightly–look how many game designers have been on the pod. We sat down to play Ever Dream This Man?, a game about confronting the mysterious figure that haunts your dreams.

Part Two of the World Champ Late Night Double Feature Podcast Spectacular — check out part 1, Press Play with Eric Prister, also on the feed right now!

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24
Oct
2024

428 – A Fool’s Errand with J Strautman

J is one of the Dungeon Masters for Planet Arcana, and the co-designer of A Fool’s Errand, a tarot-fueled science fantasy game set in a vibrant post-calamity world of Androids, Humans, and those in between. We sit down to build out characters and explore the world of the game, discovering a calamitous, world-shaking Big Oops along the way–and asking the question “what is life like for the people alive in its wake?”

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26
Sep
2024

424 – Giant of Light with Evan McDevitt

Evan is the designer of Giant of Light, a love letter to tokusatsu media and Giant Hero shows like Ultraman! We chat about superheroes, MMA, aliens, the city of Philadelphia (Go Birds), and Street Fighter as we play through a session of the game.

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13
Sep
2024

422 – Desperation (The Isabel) with Jason Morningstar

Jason is the designer of Desperation: The Isabel, a haunting historical horror game of a doomed cod-fishing vessel on the Gulf of Alaska in 1888 (as well as Fiasco, Grey Ranks, and a tremendous number of other hugely influential games). We set sail on the Gulf to explore what happens to this doomed crew as a storm overwhelms them… and then Hell comes with it.

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19
Jul
2024

416 – The Last Hand with Eric Faber

Two outlaws are stuck in a boarded up saloon together. Something is outside, trying to get in. Things are going to get worse before the night is over.

“The best that you can hope for is to die in your sleep.”

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