Spindlewheel

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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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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371 – Let the Fire Soothe with Lyra Vega

A PORTAL HAS ERUPTED IN THE HEART OF THE CITY. And unfortunately for NoClip, it’s also in the heart of his small neighborhood. Someone has to step up and step through the threshold. But with so much on his mind, it will take a miracle to give him the strength he needs. Of course, that’s just what the demon in his Zippo offers, in exchange for a memory or two… Continue reading →

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