Drama

Stories with a focus on relationships and realistic situations.

Oct

2026

504 – The House Edge with Caleb Zane Huett (Triangle Agency, Nightcrawler is My Boyfriend)

Caleb is one of my favorite designers AND podcasters (you have to check out Nightcrawler is My Boyfriend, it is a joy), and so I was thrilled when he reached out about the new game he’s releasing, The House Edge. It is a mashup of Triangle Agency and FIST (two of my favorite RPGs), in which a squad of paranormal mercenary thieves team up to take down an otherworldly casino owner who wronged them… and end up infiltrating a twisted time loop facility as a result. It is EXTREMELY MY JAM.

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Oct

2026

503 – Adorned With Curses (Spindlenoir) with Sasha Reneau (Designer, Spindlewheel)

Sasha is the creator of Spindlewheel, an interpretive tarot-like storytelling game where you weave together a story from card to card (and one of my favorite games of the past decade!). To wrap up our impromptu Spindlewheel trilogy on the show, we sat down with the special Spindlenoir deck to tell the story of a big-city dreamer cursed with deadly ambition in Adorned With Curses by Avalyn Ramsay.

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Oct

2026

502 – The Fallen (Magic The Gathering Hack) with Vera Drew (Director, The People’s Joker)

Vera Drew is a director, writer, editor, and actor, who won the 2024 Gotham Award for Breakthrough Director for her debut feature film The People’s Joker, an unauthorized, autobiographical transgender coming of age story filtered through the language of Batman comics. (If you can’t imagine why that sentence has me screaming, you don’t know me very well.)

Because Vera is a huge Magic: The Gathering Commander fan, we played a game of The Fallen using one of her favorite Commander decks (including some fan-made cards!) to tell the story of a paladin, their god, and the long road that follows their fall from grace.

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Sep

2026

501 – The Mountain with Matt Boothman (Creator, Merely Roleplayers, I Need a Miracle)

Matt is the host and creator of Merely Roleplayers, a long-running actual play podcast focused on theatrical performers enjoying tabletop RPGs together. He’s also the creator and writer of I Need A Miracle, an audio drama about a world purely through its people’s prayers for miracles, some of which are granted in ways that cause problems for everyone. Season 1 was a NJ Web Fest selection and award finalist, and season 2 is currently crowdfunding.

We sat down for a creative interview and discussion over a game of The Mountain, a Spindlewheel Microgame about a god, locked in the peak of a mountain, and its followers, scaling the mountain to free that god… for good or for ill.

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Aug

2026

498 – In the Shadow of Glory with Emily Jaye (Host, This Week in Fandom History)

Emily is one of the hosts of This Week in Fandom History, a podcast which breaks down different foundational moments that shaped and shook fandom culture over the years–from those you know like the back of your hand, to those you might never have heard of before.

We got deep in the paint with our shared love of superhero fandom in a game of In The Shadow Of Glory, a two-player letter writing game about a hero and villain so deeply intertwined, they have become the only people on earth who understand one another.

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Aug

2026

496 – Together We Write Private Cathedrals with Avery Alder (Designer, Monsterhearts, Ribbon Drive, Dream Askew)

Avery is the designer of some of the most influential games in TTRPGs, including Monsterhearts, The Quiet Year, Dream Askew, Ribbon Drive, and more. We sat down for a beautiful and intimate story of queer romance told in the margins in Together We Write Private Cathedrals by Weaver Walker.

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Jul

2026

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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Jul

2026

493 – Tether with Justin C. Key (Author, The Hospital At The End Of The World)

Justin C. Key is a speculative fiction and horror author whose new book, The Hospital At The End Of The World, is available in stores now. It’s a murder mystery set in the last human-run hospital in a world overrun by a seemingly (but not quite) perfect AI algorithm overseen by a sinister corporation. Talk about an unfortunately timely premise.

We sat down to play Tether, a two-player journaling game about people decades apart staring down the same supernatural curse, with only a journal spread across time to help them stop it.

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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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Apr

2026

489 – Death of the Author feat. Isabel J. Kim (Author, Sublimation)

Isabel is a speculative fiction writer and podcast host (Wow If True), whose debut novel, Sublimation, a story of Doppelgängers, corporate intrigue, heartbreak, betrayal, and the harsh permanence of the border, hits stores on June 2, 2026. We dig deep into the well of metafiction in a game of superhero vs. author in a game of Death of the Author by Blinking Birch Games.

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