Stories with a focus on relationships and realistic situations.
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
Sean is a professional Game Master, video creator, and INCREDIBLE advocate for the world of TTRPGs. We sat down to play a faction-filled game of Worlds Without Harmony, a game of ideological conflicts, unanswerable questions, and the people caught up in them.
You’ll dig this episode if you like: Superheroes (specifically, the NBC masterpiece Heroes), inventive worldbuilding, folk heroes, and big emotional swings.
We sat down to indulge in a lovely evening of Jenga, poker, and… MURDER!? in a game of A Weekend in the Country by Lari Assmuth!
Sam is the host of Dice Exploder, an ENnie-nominated podcast where game designers break down the specific mechanics of their favorite TTRPGs (as well as an incredible game designer in his own right). We sat down to play Desperation (Dead House), a historical horror RPG, based on real history, about a small community in Kansas facing an oppressive, deadly winter. Who will survive being pushed to their limits?
Austin is the host of Secret Histories of Nerd Mysteries, a podcast breaking down the untold stories behind questions such as “Why does Charles Entertainment Cheese love birthdays so much?” and “Why are Saturday Morning Cartoons such Toy Commercials?”, as well as one of the designers of Kids in Capes. We sit down to play The Weaver’s Observatory, an adventure about a desperate traveler climbing a tower to ask Fate for a holy boon!
Even if you are, through some unfortunate, miserable twist of fate… some kind of “superhero.”