Slice-Of-Life

Stories about everyday experiences between ordinary people.

500 – The Party of One Episode 500 Spectacular (The Creation of Wonder with A Bunch of My Friends)

To celebrate 500 episodes(!) of the show, I sat down with a bunch of my friends to play The Creation of Wonder by Eve Golden-Woods. We told the story of The Singularity Cycle, Phase I. The Blade of the Exarchs, a multimedia rock opera cinematic experience adapted from 20 years of TTRPG campaign notes.

Thank you to my guests on this episode: Noah Houlihan, Jonaya Kemper, Hazel Amber Goswick, Alex Pearlman (Pearlmania500), Audrey Ladytabletop, KeganEXE, Marn Lastname, Caleb Zane Huett, Christine Prevas, Dr. Emily Friedman, Sophia Ricciardi, His Name Was Dusk, Kendrick Smith, AJ Ray AKA Hooshakid, Meghan Cross, Kienna Shaw, Jadzia Axelrod, Cate Osborn (Catieosaurus), Aaron Voigt, Dillin Apelyan, Stentor Danielson, Caro Asercion, Kevin Gallagher, Riley Hopkins, Lucas, Sarah Gailey, Matt Boothman, Elisabeth McCaughrean, Quinn Majeski, Grant, Mike Schubert, Patrick Kenny, Barclay Travis, Richard Kreutz-Landry, Steph Beck Fey, Dewayne Feenstra, and Adam Vass.

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497 – Un-Navigateable with V Arrow (Host, This Week in Fandom History)

V is one of the hosts of This Week in Fandom History, a podcast about notable events across fan culture, from the very recent to the pioneering moments of fandom. We sat down to play Un-Navigateable by K Ramstack, a solo tabletop RPG about the experience of cataloging an old blog off before taking ti down from the internet. It’s a great opportunity to examine our own history of fandom, and the particular ways we came of age on the Internet.

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

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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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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431 – El Inmortal Unmasked in the Main Event (Acoustic Cover) with Michael Ornelas

Michael is the host of the Fine Dining podcast, where he deep dives into the histories of your favorite chain restaurants to fine the ultimate 5-out-of-10 “fine” dining experience. He’s also a huge wrestling fan, so it only felt natural that we lean into that with a game of El Inmortal Unmasked in the Main Event, telling the stories of the greatest rivalry in wrestling history.

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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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