Action

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

Oct

2024

426 – Friendly Neighborhood Superhero with AJ Ray

AJ is an Actual Play performer, video editor, cosplayer, and (like me) a wearer of many hats; you can most recently hear them on the latest arc of One Shot, playing Machine Impossible, and as a player on The Lurking Legends (a rotating GM, One Piece-inspired Actual Play series). We sat down for a game of Friendly Neighborhood Superhero, a game about superheroic action and protecting your community. We geek out SO MUCH about superheroes, y’all. It’s great.

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Oct

2024

425 – Ironsworn Starforged with Chris Colón

Chris is a voice actor, actual play producer, and founder of Taíno Tales, an award-nominated, queer latine-led TTRPG actual play channel. We sit down to play Ironsworn Starforged, and encounter a horrifying discovery and a dangerous showdown on a snow-blighted wasteland planet!

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Sep

2024

424 – Giant of Light with Evan McDevitt

Evan is the designer of Giant of Light, a love letter to tokusatsu media and Giant Hero shows like Ultraman! We chat about superheroes, MMA, aliens, the city of Philadelphia (Go Birds), and Street Fighter as we play through a session of the game.

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Aug

2024

420 – Fear the Taste of Blood with Thom

Thom is an actor, improviser, TTRPG enthusiast, and cast member on Green Mountain Mysteries, a Dresden Files Actual Play on the Pocket Podcast Network. We stared down the shadows in a game of Fear the Taste of Blood, a TTRPG about a group of survivors fending off a classic movie monster! Get ready… FOR THE WRATH OF THE CROCODILE MAN!

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Aug

2024

419 – LUMEN RYDER CORE with Akemi

Akemi is a profilic designer of tabletop games, including Frills of Justice and Friendship and Searching for my Solemate, as well as a massive fan of Tokusatsu shows such as Kamen Rider. And that’s exactly why we sat down to play a game of LUMEN RYDER CORE, a game of superpowered masked heroes battling an evil organization!

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Jul

2024

417 – Bar the Windows Bolt the Doors with Adam Macias

Adam Macias is a comedian, and host of That Was Wild, a podcast where comedians and strangers on the Internet share their craziest stories. We talk Florida Men, horror, and shitty AirBnBs as we play Bar the Windows, Bolt the Doors, an RPG about defending your home from horrifying monstrosities.

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Jul

2024

415 – The Beast Within with Valiant Dorian

When backed against the wall, will you stay human? Or will you embrace the rage and summon the power of your bestial form, to bring a wave of vengeance down on your enemies?

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Jun

2024

413 – What’s So Cool About Doomed Self-Loathing? with Grant

It’s a perfect world! And there’s nothing you can do to change that.

Even if you are, through some unfortunate, miserable twist of fate… some kind of “superhero.”

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Jun

2024

412 – Alchemistresses with Dora Dee Rogers

A generation ago, five women stood up, fought off a wave of monsters, and then walked away on a rainbow bridge to who-knows-where.

Now, 50 years later, the monsters have returned. And that can only mean one thing…

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May

2024

411 – BLOOD//RUSH with Theodore Monk

IT IS THE 90th ANNIVERSARY OF THE ORBIT OF ENYO’S COMET. INFINITE COSMIC POWER IS WITHIN THE GRASP OF ANYONE BOLD ENOUGH TO WIELD IT. WHO WILL CLAIM THE LEGACY OF L. REDBREAKER? ONLY THE STRONG WILL SUCCEED!

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