Drama

Stories with a focus on relationships and realistic situations.

Feb

2026

482 – Into the Odd (To Put Away a Sword) with Brian Flaherty

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.

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Nov

2025

477 – Songs and Sagas with Frankie Kevich

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 2. We 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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Nov

2025

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 Belt, an 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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Nov

2025

474 – The Time We Have with Elliot Davis

Elliot is the designer of some of my favorite games, including Project ECCO, which we played on the 400th episode of the show. We sat down for a truly heartbreaking game of The Time We Have, a TTRPG about two brothers on opposite sides of a door, staring down the inevitable amidst a zombie apocalypse.

CW: Grief, trauma, familial terminal illness, body horror

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Oct

2025

472 – The God of Spite and Violence (Character Creation) with Teddy Ren

Teddy Ren is a comedian, writer, singer/songwriter, mental health advocate, and all-around entertainer (and as someone who wears a lot of creative hats… I get it. I respect it.). We sat down to build characters and explore the world of The God of Spite And Violence, a game inspired by stories like Monkey Man, Kill Bill, and John Wick.

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Oct

2025

471 – Tapestry with Kaitlin Bruder

Kaitlin is one of the producers behind Thin Places Radio, an award-winning short-form fiction podcast in the shape of a radio show from nowhere, in which the mysterious Host comes responds to real voicemails from actual callers with supernaturally sentimental anecdotes and advice. She’s also a streamer, actual play performer, artist, and designer–a fellow wearer of many creative hats.

We sat down for a session of Kaitlin’s favorite game, Tapestry, an interpretive card-based RPG of weaving character’s stories together, and coming to witness the tanged, densely interconnected threads and patterns that result.

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Oct

2025

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 Adults, drops 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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Sep

2025

469 – For the Queen with Anjali Bhimani

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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Sep

2025

468 – Against Time & Death with Michael Turrentine

Michael is one of the stars of World Gone Wrong, a fictional chat show about friendship at the end of the world, in which two best friends talk about life in a world of werewolves, humming kudzu, body snatchers, and a million other crises all at once. We sat down to play Against Time And Death, an epistolary roleplaying game of agents on opposite sides of a multiversal war, and the slowly developing forbidden relationship between them.

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Aug

2025

466 – Shadow / Giant with Rahrah

Rahrah is the creator and GM of The Heart is a Dungeon, an actual play TTRPG podcast focused on sad, emotional storytelling with a primarily BIPOC and fem presenting cast. We tapped into that deep, vulnerable spirit in a game of Shadow / Giant, an asymmetrical RPG about a gruff loner forced to take care of a mysteriously magically powerful child. Can they support one another as they race against the odds towards some kind of safety?

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