DMs After Dark

Feeling confident in their abilities, the dissociated PC trains in the forest village near the radio tower, eager to get strong enough to face the robot god and finish his revenge quest.  However, as the old adage goes: "Be careful what you wish for." A chance encounter with the god results in a rude awakening, which has left our hero reeling and second guessing their chances...   If you enjoy our...

After a harrowing first few weeks wandering the wilderness in a horrible future, searching for a robot god to kill to avenge his fallen brother, Rene picks up the Miru I campaign as he confronts the very Buster T-7 that killed his brother.  This session goes about as opposite as the first as you can imagine.  Things are getting real.   If you enjoy our streams, podcasts, or just our general nerdin...

The group helps get some wanted folks out of the Vale and to safety, but there are other forces watching and following.  The last few episodes have been adapted from Ludovic Chabant's A Short Detour adventure, which you can find out more about here.   And you can learn more about the wonderful system of Runequest here .   If you enjoy our streams, podcasts, or just our general nerdiness, please co...

Rene is back with another solo RPG series with Miru: An Analog Adventure Game by Hinokodo! This game is a deadly survival hexcrawl which pits the player in the shoes of a dissociated main character on a mission to get revenge for his slain brother against the Robot god which has ruined the world.  It's a really great game full of difficult resource management, fast deadly combat, and timed events...

The Harraborn celebrate the birth of a new child. Strangers with a secret arrive at the vale seeking hospitality.   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...

Can you believe we've put out 100 podcast episodes?! Neither can we! Between our actual play streams, our Modified Rolls, and all the shenanigans in between, we've reached a milestone that surprised us, so we decided to give it the respect it deserves and...   Wait, a 1d6 | 1d4 episode?! What in the Sara's wild imagination is going on right now?   Sara is joined by Christian, Jess, and Rene as we...

Life assumes a new normal for Rue following his Telmori initiation. Descara gains a mentor. A new life enters the clan.   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 about all things RPGs.   And, a...

Hello everyone and welcome to the mind of Troy, as he plays the solo RPG Mind Crawler by Symphoneers in an alternate ginger DM version of Playing With Myself (On The Internet).  Mind Crawler is a single-player RPG about progressing through a surreal internalized dungeon and overcoming material representations of abstract personal issues, and the subject matter can certainly get very personal and v...

As Ruen attempts to leave the village for their safety and his own reasons, Descara, Bryn, Aurisa, and Kymrese remind him that he's not alone.  The young adults journey into the woods in search of something Rue needs to be comfortable in his own skin.   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,...

Remember the days of your preteens or teenage years where going to the mall was the coolest, you and your friends would hang out with the little bit of money you had and just wander the same four hallways being delinquents?   Well now, you can play a game that relives those adventures in absolutely wild scenarios! Check out Mall Kids 2023 by Matthew Gravelyn on Kickstarter through 4/21 (so act fas...

Kymrese practices his Second Sight. Rue struggles with his worst fear. Descara buries a friend. Aurisa's prayers for guidance are answered.  The crew confronts the kidnapper.   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...

You may be influenced by your past, but those events do not define you or determine where you go from here.   Anamnesis is an amazing journaling solo-player game by Samantha Leigh where you play a character who wakes up with memory loss. It uses a deck of tarot cards and splits the game up into 5 Acts with prompts to jog the memories of your character.  Check it out!   You're probably not supposed...

After successfully fending off cattle raiders from the nearby Sambari Tribe, our young heroes return to their tribe for their rewards, but not all is fine in the Vale.  Another missing child, Rue has bad dreams, and the others deal with troubles brewing in all directions.   If you enjoy our streams, podcasts, or just our general nerdiness, please consider giving us a 5-star rating on your podcast...

Continuing the off-week actual play content, Rene sat down with his wife Lynn to record a 2 player GMless session of Ghost Club by Andrew Dowell.  Taking the role of teenage ghost hunters in Twin Falls, the players explore haunted locations and collect clues needed to summon, confront, and banish the ghosts of their home town.  Designed for younger players, it was a really fun time, even though we...

Now adults in the eyes of the Clan, our heroes come together for a bit of exploration through the Vale and take part in a tradition as old as the clans themselves.   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 &...

The crew confront the smugglers in the plateau, the first glyph on Marco's map, and finally find some, but not all, answers.  This part of the story ends.   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...

It's the finale, we're approaching the end of our time in the Roomlands and Colostle by Nich Angell, but there's plenty to do, so let's get to it...   Marco, Berger, and Alis venture into the Crackway in the wall of the oceanic room and find more Bastions, but this time, they aren't hostile or serving a trapped ancient Rook.  They meet Null, a Bastion who can guide them through the Crackways using...

Live and in Heortling, welcome to the second initiation episode of our series running Andrew Montgomery's Six Seasons in Sartar campaign for Chaosium's RuneQuest roleplaying game.  This time, it's the boys' turn to go through the rite of passage to manhood.   Glorantha is a world of myths, gods, and legends come to life.  A Bronze Age world of heroes and great villains, triumphs and failures on a...

First things first, check out the Solo But Not Alone 3 on Itch.io! It's an incredible collection of solo-oriented indie RPGs and is raising money for the Jasper's Game Day charity for suicide prevention and awareness.  Great games and a great cause!   In the penultimate episode of my time in Colostle , Marco, Berger, and Alis are the new owners of a legendary Astrolithic Rook, a pilot-able flying...

Greetings in Heortling and welcome to the very first episode of our series running Andrew Montgomery's Six Seasons in Sartar campaign for Chaosium's RuneQuest roleplaying game.   Glorantha is a world of myths, gods, and legends come to life.  A Bronze Age world of heroes and great villains, triumphs and failures on a cosmic scale.   In our introductory episode, meet the cast of young characters fr...

We're well above the Roomlands now, up past the terrifying gargoyle-filled Rafters and onto the mythical Battlements in Rene's solo play-through of Colostle by Nich Angell!  Please go check it out, it's an incredibly accessible and easy to learn game with great art and all you need is a deck of cards!   The cult that shattered the skylight in the Rafters is finally heading to the legendary Battlem...

For our first long-form campaign, Christian introduces the group to Chaosium's RuneQuest as we create our characters for the Bronze Age fantasy world of Glorantha.  Meet the PCs, learn a little about this incredibly well fleshed out world full of myth and lore that dates back to the 1970s.   We are so excited to play a longer game, and we hope you'll enjoy our playthrough of Andrew Montgomery's Si...

We unashamedly did it. We played the meme game making fun of indie game recommendations during the OGL debacle...   No description necessary, but many apologies maybe?   Shout to Dave Marr (@DaveMarrrrrr) on Twitter for the rules we used & Francita (@byfrancita) for the awesome Fishblade art we used on the stream.   If you enjoy our streams, podcasts, or just our general nerdiness, please consider...

Welcome back to the Roomlands & Rene's solo play-through of Colostle by Nich Angell!  Please go check it out, it's an incredibly accessible and easy to learn game with great art and all you need is a deck of cards!   After coming so close to the strange glyph-marked plateau only to be snatched by a gargoyle and pulled up into the Rafters high above the Roomlands, our protagonists are left searchin...

Christmas day comes to Silence, Oklahoma, and those who shall be rewarded reap what they have sown.   CONTENT WARNINGS: Violence against children (non sexual), violence against others, themes of misogyny, body horror, mental illness, us/them and outsiders, and Judaeo-Christian horror   Find out more about Crossroads Carnival and get it here !   If you enjoy our streams, podcasts, or just our gener...