Action

This is an episode with an emphasis on action scenes, big setpieces, and the like.

494 – Last Shooting with Adam Mac (The Disappearances of Lydia Fountayne, Feddie Scum)

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!

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492 – Elf With a 10-Page Backstory with Johnny Stanton IV (Adventuring Academy, Almost Friday TV D&D Games)

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.

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485 – 1978: The Night They Came Home with Lachlan Watson (Y2K, Chucky, The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina)

Lachlan is an actor who you can see right now in Y2KChuckyThe 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.

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483 – Starlight Riders with Shenuque Tissera


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.

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479 – MERGER with John Rogers (Creator, Leverage, The Librarians, Jackie Chan Adventures)

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).

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477 – Songs and Sagas with Frankie Kevich (Voice Actor, Silent Hill F)

Frankie is an actor and voice actor whose work you can hear right now as one of the main characters in Silent Hill F, as well as in the upcoming film The VelociPastor 2We sat down to tell a post-apocalyptic fantasy horror adventure in Songs and Sagas, an axes & runes RPG about exploring the world after Ragnarok and carving out a home in the desolate wastes.

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476 – Dead Belt with Ty

Ty is the host of Side Character Quest, a 2-player actual play podcast in which every adventure follows the unique story of a single character in a larger, interconnected fantasy world.

We sat down to play Dead Beltan RPG of space cowboys digging into derelict spaceships. Can our heroes collect their payload and get home safely before the terrors of space kill them before they can cash their check?

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475 – Time to Drop with Emma Shannon

Emma is host of Unnatural Selection on the Moonshot Podcast Network, about film adaptations of books, the weird choices Hollywood makes, and what actually constitutes a “good” adaptation. He’s also a cast member on Interstitial Infinity (an Actual Play podcast about troubled pop culture teens on the Infinity Train) and Dead Teen House Party, a rewatch podcast of MTV’s Scream series.

We geared up, gathered our crew, and pulled the job of the century in fellow Moonshot podcast bestie Marn Lastname’s Time to Drop, a time loop heist game about a group of thieves forced to pull off the same job again… and again… and again… and again… and again… and again…

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470 – Hunt(er/ed) with Cate Osborn

Cate is an author, podcaster, ADHD educator & advocate, kinkster and Shakespeare nerd. She hosts Sorry I Missed This, an everything guide to ADHD and relationships, and her new book, The ADHD Field Guide For Adultsdrops in March. She’s also running vampire games at literal Castle Dracula as one of the GMs of Danube of the Damned, which is one of the coolest sentences I’ve ever gotten to write.

We got deep in the weeds on backyard concerts, monsters, lost identities, and tense showdowns between hunter and hunted in HUNTER(ER/ED) by Dillin Apelyan and Meghan Cross.

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