Historical

Stories set in the real world (or real world-adjacent) past.

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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410 – Eyes on the Prize with Audrey

The plan is simple. Pretend to be married. Infiltrate the town festival. Locate the target. Murder the target. Get out. Murder each other. Easiest job in the world.

Most important thing. Don’t fall in love. Do not under any circumstances fall in love.

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389 – Grand Guignol with Luke Jordan

London stands at the precipice of something far greater than humanity’s understanding. Forces ancient and arcane are stirring, and entities new and terrifying are being born. Battle lines are drawn. Conduits and avatars are being chosen. But if those avatars accept… that is another story.

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374 – Frontier Scum with Christine Prevas

There is something… lurking… beneath the tunnels in the mines. Something violent, something furious, something alive what once was dead. But the scariest part? What’s above the ground might be scarier than what’s stirring below.

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364 – Haunted West with Beaz

Silas Whittaker loaded seven bullets for seven siblings. They had made a pact with… something out there. And they needed to be put to rest.

That calling brought him to Amigara Ridge. What was there… was just the beginning. Continue reading →

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298 – Gravemire with David Gales

Scarstone, Louisiana. The 1890s. A small town full of doomed souls on the edge of an unknowable bayou.

This is the story of one of those doomed souls. But as he would say, that’s giving away the ending… Continue reading →

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254 – A Duet of Steel with Andy Randolph

Two pirates, forever at odds. One a ne’er-do-well rebel. The other, a relentlessly by-the-books sea dog. They will spend the rest of their days butting heads and crossing blades, until their feud comes to a head. What happens then… will leave both changed forever. Continue reading →

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