Drama

Stories with a focus on relationships and realistic situations.

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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444 – Errant with Steve Morrison

Steve is the host of Errant Adventuresan 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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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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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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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.

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432 – Worlds Without Harmony with Sean Foer

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.

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431 – El Inmortal Unmasked in the Main Event (Acoustic Cover) with Michael Ornelas

Michael is the host of the Fine Dining podcast, where he deep dives into the histories of your favorite chain restaurants to fine the ultimate 5-out-of-10 “fine” dining experience. He’s also a huge wrestling fan, so it only felt natural that we lean into that with a game of El Inmortal Unmasked in the Main Event, telling the stories of the greatest rivalry in wrestling history.

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427 – A Weekend in the Country with Eleanor Hyde

Eleanor is a member of Audacious Machine Creative, and executive producer of Unwell, an award-winning audio drama about conspiracies, ghosts, and unusual families of blood and choice. Her new podcast, World Gone Wrong, is a fictional chat show about friendship at the end of the world, focused on two longtime friends on opposites sides of a country beset by werewolves, vampires, aliens, and every other apocalypse under the sun.

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!

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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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421 – Desperation (Dead House) with Sam Dunnewold

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?

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