Jax is a freelance game designer, writer, sensitivity reader, editor, and one of the organizers of NotACon: Revenge of the Con!, a three-day summit of games, feelings, and hot-tubbing happening in Millerstown, PA from October 22-25, 2026 (which I’ll be attending as a special guest!). We sat down live at Unity Java in Philadelphia, PA, for a weird, intimate, horrific but beautiful game of Insatiable Cravings by friend of the show j strautman!
Tom Harrison is one of the brain geniuses behind Anime Sickos, my actual favorite podcast in the world. The show is a dissection of the four pillars of modern misery (Anime, Gaming, Posting, and Jobs), and is honestly everything you could possibly want in a podcast. It’s funny, insightful, occasionally righteously angry, and genuinely makes me want to make podcasts.
We sat down to play Don’t Kill a Bird With a Baseball, an RPG where Randys Johnson from across the multiverse gather to stop our world’s Randy Johnson from killing a bird with a baseball.
Ellen is an actor, writer, visual artist, baseball analyst, and lifelong fan of the Philadelphia Phillies (whom I am watching on TV right now… it’s good to be back). You can catch them right now in The Housemaid, as a regular contributor to MLB Network’s “Off Base,” on a number of award-winning festival features, and on their baseball media podcast Take Me In To Ballgame.
We talk sports, art, community, and catharsis as we imagine worlds of what could be in a game of In This World by Ben Robbins.
Lachlan is an actor who you can see right now in Y2K, Chucky, The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina, and more. We knew we wanted to explore some weird, messy horror, so I couldn’t think of a better game than 1978: The Night They Came Home by World Champ Game Co.
It’s Halloween night. Time for a showdown between survivor and killer.
Jeffrey is a director, audio artist, and sound designer with Audacious Machine Creative, creators of such incredible podcasts as Unwell: A Midwestern Gothic Mystery, World Gone Wrong, and their newest show, The Harbingers. We sat down to explore a cursed monument and witness the death of a group of explorers in Chiron’s Doom by Nick Bate.
Shenuque is a Queer Sri Lankan actor, writer, comedian, and co-owner of Many Sided Media. You can catch them on tour right now for their new stand-up special Wait, What’s Sri Lanka?, as well as on the new Perils & Princesses season of My First Dungeon.
We sat down to play Starlight Riders by friend of the show Cesar Capacle, a card-based RPG of heists in outer space. A group of galactic outlaws have been screwed over. It’s time to take back what’s owed to them.
Brian is one of the minds behind Many Sided Media, an award-winning podcast production company that specializes in improvised storytelling and immersive audio fiction. You can hear him as the GM on My First Dungeon, especially on its current Perils & Princesses season, as well as one of the interviewers on Talk of the Table.
We sat down to play Into the Odd, a rules-light, flavour-heavy roleplaying game of industrial horror and cosmic strangeness. We dug into the adventure To Put Away a Sword, a sci-fi fantasy adventure in a post climate change world.
Luke is a podcaster and Twitch streamer who hosts Fortnite Talk Show, in which he jumps into random Fortnite channels and chats with his fellow players like a talk show. He also hosts the show STORES, a podcast about the universal experience of going to stores.
We sat down for a science-fantasy adventure in Troika!, a science-fantasy roleplaying game where you and your cosmopolitan group of fellow travellers explore the ends of the multiverse.
A skeleton buys a house. It goes badly from there.
Emily is one of the creators of Metra: A Climate Revolution With Songs, an original musical fiction podcast about how we change the world. The podcast weaves ancient myth, transformative magic, and memorable music to tell the story of a dangerous climate future, and the fight for the world we deserve.
In that same vein, we sat down to play Hardcore Ecologist, a game of wandering the weird Wastes, Wilderness and Ruins of the future world, making an inventory of the new life that has developed here in the centuries after a massive climate change cataclysm, surveying for specimens.
John is the creator of Leverage and Leverage: Redemption, as well as The Librarians, Jackie Chan Adventures and more. We sat down to play MERGER, a solo RPG about trying to survive in a world of living predatory corporations (which, in addition to being an apt way to describe living in 2026, is literal in this case–massive, soul-consuming eldritch horrors given flesh).