Avery is the designer of some of the most influential games in TTRPGs, including Monsterhearts, The Quiet Year, Dream Askew, Ribbon Drive, and more. We sat down for a beautiful and intimate story of queer romance told in the margins in Together We Write Private Cathedrals by Weaver Walker.
Shing is a multi-disciplinary artist whose work ranges from film and puppetry to comics and graphic novels and incredible keepsake games such as A Mending and their newest, January. January is a postcard writing game for two about distant but persistent friendships in an alternate universe filled with kaiju–AKA, the most “Me” pitch I’ve ever heard in my life.
Appropriate to the topic of January, we sat down to play HOME, 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?
Adam is a cast member on The Disappearances of Lydia Fountayne, an award-nominated new audio drama about books, birds, and life beneath the all-seeing electronic eye of the internet. He also GMs Feddie Scum, a Gundam fanfiction actual play podcast set during the events of the Universal Century.
In the spirit of big robots, bigger drama, and even bigger feelings, we sat down for an epic battle in Last Shooting by dear friend of the show Grant. Get ready for spies vs. soldiers in the battle before the war!
Justin C. Key is a speculative fiction and horror author whose new book, The Hospital At The End Of The World, is available in stores now. It’s a murder mystery set in the last human-run hospital in a world overrun by a seemingly (but not quite) perfect AI algorithm overseen by a sinister corporation. Talk about an unfortunately timely premise.
We sat down to play Tether, a two-player journaling game about people decades apart staring down the same supernatural curse, with only a journal spread across time to help them stop it.
Johnny is a professional athlete, professional nerd, and ambassador for all things D&D and tabletop RPGs. You can catch him right now on the Almost Friday TV D&D series on YouTube, running the cast through their first-ever Dungeons & Dragons game.
We sat down for an indulgent celebration of all things trope-y tabletop fantasy in a game of Elf With a 10-page Backstory, in which over-the-top TTRPG characters unleash their overwritten origins to stop apocalyptic threats.
Andrew is not only one of my favorite people in the world, but he is also the host of some of my favorite podcasts, including ARGonauts, The Podcast Mines, and Mild Manor’d. We’re also sitting down THIS WEEKEND (at the release of this episode) at Moonshot.mov for MOONTROPOLIS, a three-day charity stream raising money for Advocates for Trans Equality
We sat down to play The Long Shift by fellow Moonshot homie Caro Asercion to tell a slice-of-life story about aliens in a galactic diner.
Sarah is a Hugo Award Winning and Bestselling author of speculative fiction, short stories, essays, comics, and more. Their 2025 novel Spread Me, a darkly seductive tale of an otherworldly intruder at an arctic research station, was named one of the Best Horror Books of 2025 by Vulture, and their new book, Make Me Better, just dropped in stores this week.
We sat down to play We Did Start the Fire, an RPG of the people who ended the world, and how they live with themselves after the fact.
🐸 ALL HAIL MARIGOLD. 🐸
Jadzia is a three-time guest on the show(!), as well as the creator of the smash-hit graphic novel Galaxy: The Prettiest Star, and its brand-new sequel, Galaxy: As the World Falls Down. We sit down to talk superhero comics, “Go Birds,” and more as we tell a Galaxy fanfiction story using a bespoke Powered by the Apocalypse system!
Isabel is a speculative fiction writer and podcast host (Wow If True), whose debut novel, Sublimation, a story of Doppelgängers, corporate intrigue, heartbreak, betrayal, and the harsh permanence of the border, hits stores on June 2, 2026. We dig deep into the well of metafiction in a game of superhero vs. author in a game of Death of the Author by Blinking Birch Games.
John is a prolific comics writer and artist, and the creator of Scary Go Round, Bad Machinery, Giant Days, and Solver. We sat down to play Not a Tabloid, an interview game about an overworked, underqualified tabloid writer trying to guess why they’re interviewing their peculiar suspect. It goes places.