Descended From the Queen

May

2026

490 – We Did Start The Fire with Sarah Gailey (author, Spread Me, Make Me Better)

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. 🐸

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Sep

2025

469 – For the Queen with Anjali Bhimani (Actor, Critical Role, DesiQuest, Borderlands 4)

Anjali is a writer, producer, and actress in games (Borderlands 4, Overwatch), TV (Ms. Marvel), animation (Tales of the TMNT, X-Men ’97), and Actual Play (Critical Role, Faster, Purple Worm! Kill! Kill!). She’s currently a producer and guest player on the national tour of The Twenty Sided Tavern, and a player in the upcoming genre-bending AP Tales From Woodcreek, as well as the DM (Doggy Master) on the 2nd annual Puppy Roll, raising money for Petco Love.

We sat down to play one of Anajli’s favorite games of all time (and mine as well), the incredibly influential For the Queen. The Queen has a difficult journey ahead. She has chosen her most loyal subjects. But can they be trusted? And at the end of the day… can the Queen?

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Aug

2025

464 – Lights Out with Marty Schneider

Marty is one of the hosts of Breaking Mayberry, an anti-nostalgia podcast focused on watching old TV (starting with, as the title suggests, The Andy Griffith Show) and assessing what holds up and what caused permanent damage to the psyche of an entire generation.

We wanted to talk TV, and storytelling, and the weird politics of creating collaborative art, and so we sat down with Lights Out, a game about the last day on set of a long running TV show.

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Apr

2025

450 – You Know Me Still with Clickclacksnac

Serenity is a cosplayer and TTRPG performer, who DMs the award-nominated AP series Tragedy of Theolosian, as well as Mass Effect: Mirage on FeyWildNOut. We both wanted to get deep in our feelings, so we dove into a game of You Know Me Still, and discovered the deeply toxic relationship between two warring fantasy spies, and the massive courts they represent.

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Sep

2023

383 – Love You Til You Love Yourself with Steph Beck Fey

Marthaniel “Thiccboi” Thicke and “Hustle” Chuck Ramford love each other. They also love baseball. And they also love booze and coke. Unfortunately for them, there’s only space in their lives for one of these loves, maybe two at most. They’ll need to make a choice.

(cw: Frank depictions of alcohol and drug abuse; scenes of dysfunctional relationships)

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