04
Jul
2025

459 – Disposable Bags of Meat with Chris Farnell

Chris is the author of the Fermi’s Progress series, a darkly comic sci-fi adventure about a spaceship doomed to obliterate every planet it takes off from. The latest novel, Fermi’s Wake 4. Overview Effect, just released, and you get it on sale now. We sat down for a delightfully horrifying Fermi-themed adventure in Disposable Bags of Meat, a horror TTRPG about unprepared, ordinary people surviving against impossible odds through luck, grit, and determination.

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19
Jun
2025

458 – Candlelight with Felix Bishop

Candlelight is a role playing game about the restless spirits of treasure hunters reckoning with their dark past and seeking hope in a haunted forest that wants to trap them there. I sat down with actor and TTRPG performer Felix Bishop to wander into the wood, and discover the fates that await our characters…

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02
Jun
2025

SPECIAL EPISODE: Galactic with Ify Nwadiwe, Nala J. Wu, Dusty Hill, and Catrina Dennis [Episode 2: Gameplay]

Our special two-part playthrough of Galactic continues, as our heroes stare down the Mandate and leap into battle!

You can find the Galactic & Going Rogue crowdfunder on Kickstarter, live now through the end of June: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/galacticgoingrogue/galactic-and-going-rogue-two-ttrpgs-of-war-among-the-stars?ref=dwc59l

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29
May
2025

455 – Wandering Blades with Daniel Kwan

Wandering Blades is a TTRPG inspired by Chinese wuxia media, Japanese animation, and action video games. Players take on the roles of highly skilled martial artists who roam the lands seeking to redress wrongs, help the downtrodden, and free the innocent from oppression.

I sit down with Daniel Kwan, designer of the game (and returning guest!), to discover why the game is “a love letter to violence.”

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22
May
2025

454 – Catch Me If You Can with Mike Rugnetta

Mike is a longtime writer, host, producer and sound designer, who has been working in digital media since 2007. Currently, he hosts Never Post, a member-supported, employee-owned podcast about and for the internet, and GMs Fun City Ventures, a fully sound designed cyberpunk narrative play RPG podcast set in a post climate catastrophe New York City, in the year 2102. We sat down to engage in the cat and mouse drama of a criminal and investigator in Catch Me If You Can, to try and answer the question:

What is a criminal, if not a mirror-image of a detective? And what is a crime, if not the setup for its investigation?

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19
May
2025

SPECIAL EPISODE: Galactic with Ify Nwadiwe, Nala J. Wu, Dusty Hill, and Catrina Dennis [Episode 1 – Worldbuilding]

INTRODUCING: A bonus two-part series (with a full group!) to coincide with the crowdfund campaign for Galactic and Going Rogue! I sat down with an incredible table of performers, including Ify Nwadiwe, Nala J. Wu, Dusty Hill, and Catrina Dennis to weave a story of rebellion and relationships in space. In part one, we make our characters and build our galaxy–stay tuned for part 2 on 6/2 where we see our heroes dive into action!

You can find the Galactic & Going Rogue crowdfunder here on Kickstarter, going live May 20th: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/galacticgoingrogue/galactic-and-going-rogue-two-ttrpgs-of-war-among-the-stars?ref=8lwj2g

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15
May
2025

453 – Orbital Blues with Austin Walker

Austin is the game master for Friends at the Table, an actual play podcast about critical worldbuilding, smart characterization, and fun interaction between good friends. He’s also the designer of Realis, a science fantasy RPG powered by sentences published by Possible Worlds Games. We sat down to play Orbital Blues, a lo-fi space western roleplaying game about freelancers chasing down the intergalactic dream of freedom and success. It’s Springsteen in space, you’re going to love it.

We also discuss the Super Bowl 59 champion Philadelphia Eagles. Go Birds.

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08
May
2025

452 – Between the Skies with Huffa

Between the Skies is a cosmic fantasy game of travel and exploration across endless worlds, packed with procedures, tables, and inspiration for hundreds of weird, wonderful adventures through the cosmos.

I sat down with the game’s author, Huffa, to explore what makes the game so special (through the eyes of professional wrestling heel turned cosmic crusader “The Guilty Pleasure” Desmond LeFleur).

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30
Apr
2025

451 – See Issue X with Third Person

Third Person (Matt, Sara, and Xen) are the trio of writers/performers behind Midst, one of my actual favorite audio fiction shows of all time. I love Midst so much in fact, that we decided to turn Party of One into… Party of Three for an episode to get to share a table with them. We sat down to play See Issue X, a solo RPG about superheroes and the incredible absurdity of comic book continuity. Get ready for the epic showdown between Captain Cardboard, Mirror Man, and Humanity! 

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