Drama

Stories with a focus on relationships and realistic situations.

468 – Against Time & Death with Michael Turrentine

Michael is one of the stars of World Gone Wronga 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 Deathan epistolary roleplaying game of agents on opposite sides of a multiversal war, and the slowly developing forbidden relationship between them.

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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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462 – Bound Together with Velvet the Dragon

Velvet is an actual play performer and cast member on Athraplaya tabletop RPG AP podcast exploring the lesser-trod paths of JRR Tolkien’s Middle-Earth through play (and aso, a literal dragon). We embarked on a winding journey of our own through the doomed landscapes of K Ramstack’s Bound Togethera game about exploring two people’s relationships as they outrun the end of the world.

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458 – Candlelight with Felix Bishop

Candlelight is a role playing game about the restless spirits of treasure hunters reckoning with their dark past and seeking hope in a haunted forest that wants to trap them there. I sat down with actor and TTRPG performer Felix Bishop to wander into the wood, and discover the fates that await our characters…

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455 – Wandering Blades with Daniel Kwan

Wandering Blades is a TTRPG inspired by Chinese wuxia media, Japanese animation, and action video games. Players take on the roles of highly skilled martial artists who roam the lands seeking to redress wrongs, help the downtrodden, and free the innocent from oppression.

I sit down with Daniel Kwan, designer of the game (and returning guest!), to discover why the game is “a love letter to violence.”

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454 – Catch Me If You Can with Mike Rugnetta

Mike is a longtime writer, host, producer and sound designer, who has been working in digital media since 2007. Currently, he hosts Never Post, a member-supported, employee-owned podcast about and for the internet, and GMs Fun City Ventures, a fully sound designed cyberpunk narrative play RPG podcast set in a post climate catastrophe New York City, in the year 2102. We sat down to engage in the cat and mouse drama of a criminal and investigator in Catch Me If You Can, to try and answer the question:

What is a criminal, if not a mirror-image of a detective? And what is a crime, if not the setup for its investigation?

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453 – Orbital Blues with Austin Walker

Austin is the game master for Friends at the Table, an actual play podcast about critical worldbuilding, smart characterization, and fun interaction between good friends. He’s also the designer of Realis, a science fantasy RPG powered by sentences published by Possible Worlds Games. We sat down to play Orbital Blues, a lo-fi space western roleplaying game about freelancers chasing down the intergalactic dream of freedom and success. It’s Springsteen in space, you’re going to love it.

We also discuss the Super Bowl 59 champion Philadelphia Eagles. Go Birds.

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452 – Between the Skies with Huffa

Between the Skies is a cosmic fantasy game of travel and exploration across endless worlds, packed with procedures, tables, and inspiration for hundreds of weird, wonderful adventures through the cosmos.

I sat down with the game’s author, Huffa, to explore what makes the game so special (through the eyes of professional wrestling heel turned cosmic crusader “The Guilty Pleasure” Desmond LeFleur).

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