DMs After Dark

Sacred Time comes to the vale on ill winds. Feelings are confessed to. Plans are made. The Year ends with the Harraborn knowing their lives are about to change forever.   If you want to look really cool, consider buying your very own DMsAfterDark T-shirt !   Learn more about Runequest here .   If you enjoy our streams, podcasts, or just our general nerdiness, please consider giving us a 5-star rat...

Angelica and Elias pit the magical skills and knowledge they've accumulated over their four years at Blackroot Academy against one another in a final exam that will name one of the two the top mage. Ambitions are put into perspective, memories affect magic, and win or lose, they must choose new paths.   Learn more about Tangled Blessings on Cassi's itch.io! .   If you want to look really cool, con...

The truth of the Breath of The Dragon is revealed. The Starbrow's presence in the Vale is detected. The Clan enters Sacred Time with an uncertain future.   If you want to look really cool, consider buying your very own DMsAfterDark T-shirt !   Learn more about Runequest here .   If you enjoy our streams, podcasts, or just our general nerdiness, please consider giving us a 5-star rating on your pod...

Angelica and Elias return for their final year at Blackroot Academy before one of them will be crowned top student. Their last year culminates in truths being uncovered, early rumors proving true, and forgiveness forbidden to one of our young mages.   Learn more about Tangled Blessings on Cassi's itch.io! .   If you want to look really cool, consider buying your very own DMsAfterDark T-shirt !   I...

Storm Season Rages through the vale, and with it comes dark tidings. A secret visitor needs help.   If you want to look really cool, consider buying your very own DMsAfterDark T-shirt !   Learn more about Runequest here .   If you enjoy our streams, podcasts, or just our general nerdiness, please consider giving us a 5-star rating on your podcast app of choice! Like, follow, and subscribe to our F...

Angelica and Elias return to Blackroot Academy for their 3rd year, and their legacies are already being cemented among the halls. From the glories and consequences of their past deeds, finding their names in book of the King's Court, and new opportunities presenting themselves, they are only growing more powerful as they head into their 4th and final year...   Learn more about Tangled Blessings on...

For Halloween 2023, the DMs return to our original summer camp horror game, this time led by Christian. Our characters are counselors at an *awful* re-education camp which is presently staffed by a skeleton crew following a horrible event which appears to have awakened something on the grounds that was best left undisturbed...   Content Warnings: Mention of suicide, drowning, burning, pretty much...

Welcome to another episode of One-Player One-Shot with Christian playing our second Cassi Mothwin game in a row, this time with the folk horror Carved By The Garden!   Christian begins what might have been a multi-episode Playing With Myself series but quickly realizes that the cards are not, in fact, in his favor.  Listen to hear what happens with Michael as he ventures forth into the woods of no...

Darkness Season continues. It's time for Aurisa to heed the calling of her family and enter into the cult of the White Lady.   If you want to look really cool, consider buying your very own DMsAfterDark T-shirt !   Learn more about Runequest here .   If you enjoy our streams, podcasts, or just our general nerdiness, please consider giving us a 5-star rating on your podcast app of choice! Like, fol...

Our magical rivals, Angelica and Elias, move onto Year 2 at Blackroot Academy and continue down their paths to power. Angelica becomes a target due to her potential, while Elias continues to play with magic he doesn't fully comprehend the cost of. A secret society reaches out. Allies lost. Allies made?   Learn more about Tangled Blessings on Cassi's itch.io! .   If you want to look really cool, co...

Winter descends on the Vale and brings with it dark, claustrophobic days and nights.    If you want to look really cool, consider buying your very own DMsAfterDark T-shirt !   Learn more about Runequest here .   If you enjoy our streams, podcasts, or just our general nerdiness, please consider giving us a 5-star rating on your podcast app of choice! Like, follow, and subscribe to our Facebook ,  T...

Angelica and Elias reminisce on their first year at Blackroot Academy - the moment that made them rivals, the setbacks they faced early in their arcane academics, and friends (and foes) made along the way both faculty and fellow students.   Learn more about Tangled Blessings on Cassi's itch.io! .   If you want to look really cool, consider buying your very own DMsAfterDark T-shirt !   If you enjoy...

Troy is back as Kymrese after his heart surgery, and his character undergoes a magical journey in his initiation.   If you want to look really cool, consider buying your very own DMsAfterDark T-shirt !   Learn more about Runequest here .   If you enjoy our streams, podcasts, or just our general nerdiness, please consider giving us a 5-star rating on your podcast app of choice! Like, follow, and su...

Jess & Kent sit down to make their characters and start a new two-player series exploring Blackroot Academy in Cassi Mothwin's dark-academia flavored RPG Tangled Blessings. Based on the tarot-style resolution in Samantha Leigh's Anamnesis (see Rene's solo playthrough here ), this game can be played solo or as two players pitted against one another as rivals at the highly selective magic school...

Dark Season blows it's winter winds into the vale. It is time for Bryn to enter fully into the cult of Vinga.   If you want to look really cool, consider buying your very own DMsAfterDark T-shirt !   Learn more about Runequest here .   If you enjoy our streams, podcasts, or just our general nerdiness, please consider giving us a 5-star rating on your podcast app of choice! Like, follow, and subscr...

We find our people. We face off against the robot god. We bring this story to an end. Or do we?   Learn more about (AND GET YOURSELF SOME) Miru I & Miru II on Hinokodo's itch.io page !   If you want to look really cool, consider buying your very own DMsAfterDark T-shirt !   If you enjoy our streams, podcasts, or just our general nerdiness, please consider giving us a 5-star rating  on your pod...

The Vale begins preparations for possible retaliation. For Descara, it's time to enter fully into the mysteries of Odayla.   If you want to look really cool, consider buying your very own DMsAfterDark T-shirt !   Learn more about Runequest here .   If you enjoy our streams, podcasts, or just our general nerdiness, please consider giving us a 5-star rating on your podcast app of choice! Like, follo...

The journey continues through golf courses, junk emporiums, space stations, churches, and plenty of bear-themed abominations!   If you want to look really cool, consider buying your very own DMsAfterDark T-shirt !   If you enjoy our streams, podcasts, or just our general nerdiness, please consider giving us a 5-star rating  on your podcast app of choice! Like, follow, and subscribe to our Twitch ,...

Bonus episode time! Friend of the DMs, Basic Action Games' Chris Rutkowsky, creator of the Honor + Intrigue system we had so much fun with reached out to us to run a special one shot showing off all the new options and rules expansions in the Intriguing Options series, and we were happy to play some more H+I! Chris steps in as our first ever guest GM (and another Chris joins as a new first time gu...

The Vale deals with the fallout of Gordangar's decisions. The characters begin to understand what they found in the ancient temple.   If you want to look really cool, consider buying your very own DMsAfterDark T-shirt !   Learn more about Runequest here .   If you enjoy our streams, podcasts, or just our general nerdiness, please consider giving us a 5-star rating on your podcast app of choice! Li...

The character continues searching for the people of his missing village and finds a village of androids, a cool DeeJay android, a not so cool Mask Lady, a weird cowboy, and a very cool raccoon.   If you want to look really cool, consider buying your very own DMsAfterDark T-shirt !   If you enjoy our streams, podcasts, or just our general nerdiness, please consider giving us a 5-star rating  on you...

The Harraborn youths are sent on a secret mission to warn the Third Wind of the Lunar scouts. Along the way they discover a long hidden secret.   If you want to look really cool, consider buying your very own DMsAfterDark T-shirt !   Learn more about Runequest here .   If you enjoy our streams, podcasts, or just our general nerdiness, please consider giving us a 5-star rating on your podcast app o...

The robot God returns, and I flee into a new region in search of my lost village, and for my life.   If you enjoy our streams, podcasts, or just our general nerdiness, please consider giving us a 5-star rating  on your podcast app of choice! Like, follow, and subscribe to our Twitch ,  Facebook ,  Twitter , and  Instagram  so you can comment & chat with us about all things RPGs.   And, as alwa...

Earth Season comes to the Vale. The Clan celebrates the harvest, but it's interrupted but unwelcome visitors.   Learn more about Runequest here .   If you enjoy our streams, podcasts, or just our general nerdiness, please consider giving us a 5-star rating on your podcast app of choice! Like, follow, and subscribe to our Facebook ,  Twitter , and  Instagram  so you can comment & chat with us a...

Having escaped by the skin of his teeth, our protagonist has fled the Robot God and made distance between himself and his quarry to recover and prepare for another assault.  He descends into an old, collapsed subway tunnel now known as The Cave of Shinda and emerges with a renewed will, heading back south to confront the God for the last time. Along the way he further limits the god's power by cut...