Drama

Stories with a focus on relationships and realistic situations.

07
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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29
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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21
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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24
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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03
Aug
2025

462 – Bound Together with Velvet the Dragon

Velvet is an actual play performer and cast member on Athraplay, a 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 Together, a game about exploring two people’s relationships as they outrun the end of the world.

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19
Jun
2025

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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29
May
2025

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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22
May
2025

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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15
May
2025

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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