Narrative Damage

Watch as a full video interview here Jason Bulmahn is a veteran tabletop game designer and creative manager with over two decades of industry experience, best known as the lead designer of the Pathfinder Roleplaying Game . Formerly the managing editor of Dragon magazine and the Director of Game Design at Paizo, he played a pivotal role in creating Pathfinder and its second edition, earning more th...

In this special action-packed 'bottle episode', we jump back in time to the night Vey's dad disappeared from Severos, and learn just why he had to escape from Irondale. Welcome to Doskvol, where the sun has been shattered and the city is shrouded in mist and soot. Giant lightning towers keep out the spirits of the dead as most of the people in the city struggle to makes ends meet. Cast...

Watch as a full video interview on YouTube Joe O'Brien is one of the founding members of the Glass Cannon Network, and regularly appears on their shows as both a player and GM, including sitting in the Handler's chair for their hugely popular Delta Green show, Get in the Trunk. We had a great time chatting with Joe all about how the GCN got started, why he loves the storytelling possibilit...

Watch as a full video episode now on YouTube Welcome to the final part of The Haunting of Hollybrook! Our Ghost Stormers crew have awoken something terrible in the abandoned Hollybrook Inn. Can they find a way to banish the ghost of Granny Pettywood before she banishes them to Hell? Cast: Rhiannon Grist (Author of Home Sick) as Holly Hollybrook Cailean Steed (Author of Home) as Sam Green Anna Step...

Watch as a full video episode now on YouTube Welcome to the second part of The Haunting of Hollybrook! The gang were hoping for a ghost story when they visited the abandoned Hollybrook Inn, but have found more than they bargained for. Just what is haunting the Inn, and can they survive it? Cast: Rhiannon Grist (Author of Home Sick) as Holly Hollybrook Cailean Steed (Author of Home) as Sam Green An...

Watch as a full video episode now on YouTube Welcome to the first episode of IS THIS YOUR FIRST TIME?, our new show where we get authors to try out a new TTRPG system every week. On this first episode, we are playing Paizo's new horror game, 13 Omens ! Hollybrook Inn has been abandoned for the last 20 years after a grisly series of murders by the owner shut it down. Which makes it perfect fodd...

Narrative Damage is levelling up! We have too many good games sitting on our shelves, so we decided to do something about it - we're bringing you a new show on the channel - IS THIS YOUR FIRST TIME? - where we get authors to try out new (to them) TTRPG systems every week! We're kicking off THIS WEEK (29 October) with a playthrough of Paizo's new horror game 13 Omens - and all three epi...

Watch as a full video episode on YouTube The jewellery heist from Charterhall University stirs old memories for the crew as Vey is interrogated about her father's disappearance and the gang look further into just what it is they have stolen... Welcome to Doskvol, where the sun has been shattered and the city is shrouded in mist and soot. Giant lightning towers keep out the spirits of the dead...

Watch as a full video episode on YouTube Fresh from one (sort of) successful jewellery heist, The Haunts set course for another one - this time, in the presence of Doskvol Royalty... What could go wrong?? Welcome to Doskvol, where the sun has been shattered and the city is shrouded in mist and soot. Giant lightning towers keep out the spirits of the dead as most of the people in the city struggle...

Watch as a full video episode on YouTube Our crew broke into the house of the mysterious Dimmer Sisters last time around and are now invited to a dinner they will never forget... can they escape with the necklace they came to steal - and their spirits intact? Welcome to Doskvol, where the sun has been shattered and the city is shrouded in mist and soot. Giant lightning towers keep out the spirits...

Watch as a full video episode on YouTube Welcome to Doskvol, where the sun has been shattered and the city is shrouded in mist and soot. Giant lightning towers keep out the spirits of the dead as most of the people in the city struggle to makes ends meet. While the nobles of the Imperium claim to run the city, the real power lies with the many gangs of Doskvol, different factions vying to seize co...

Watch as a full video interview on our YouTube channel In this special crossover episode with our sister podcast, Page One - The Writer's Podcast, we chat with the brilliant Jon Gracey! Jon is a writer, actor, producer, games designer and much more! Host of the hugely popular Blood on the Clocktower live, Jon also designs board games and appears regularly on No Rolls Barred as well as other ga...

Watch as a full video interview on YouTube Tim Denee is a graphic designer and TTRPG creator who has created resources for games such as Blades in the Dark, as well as developing his own games such as Deathmatch Island, Odyssey Aquatica and, most recently, the Blades in the Dark supplement, Blades '68, which takes the world of Blades 100 years into the future into the swinging 60s. We had great fu...

Watch as a full video interview on YouTube Emily C. Friedman teaches courses on British literature, book history, games, and playful media. Trained as a book historian, narratologist, and digital humanist, her work examines the history of cultural production outside of commercial mass media from the eighteenth century to today, from never-published manuscript fiction to analog games. Now one of th...

Watch as a full video episode on YouTube We break down our recent actual of Delta Green's From The Dust and get the Handler and players' views on what went wrong, what went right, and what we added and missed from the scenario as written., Narrative Damage is a TTRPG podcast that asks authors to put down their pens, pick up the dice and tell stories together. Cast: Benedict Anning, author of Atomi...

Watch as a full video episode on YouTube New York, 1993. In the final part of our Delta Green adventure, the Agents have a name to follow and it seems to lead back to Unit 35 and the mysterious door. But what will they find on the other side? And will they ever return? Narrative Damage is a TTRPG podcast that asks authors to put down their pens, pick up the dice and tell stories together. Cast: Be...

Watch as a full video episode on YouTube New York, 1993. Agents Mercator and Meridian choose to surveil the Gerritsen Mansion at night, but find more than they bargained for, while Agents Myriad and Midnight's investigations turn up even more disturbing leads. Just what happened in Red Hook? And is the truth better left buried? Narrative Damage is a TTRPG podcast that asks authors to put down thei...

Watch as a full video episode on YouTube New York, 1993. Our four mismatched agents begin to investigate the mansion that Delta Green believes is linked to the disappearances of three young children. What they start to uncover is both troubling and unsettling. Can they find out the truth before it begins to eat away at their own lives? Narrative Damage is a TTRPG podcast that asks authors to put d...

Watch as a full video episode on YouTube New York, 1993. In the sweltering heat of late summer, four mismatched operatives are activated by Delta Green to take part in Operation Blister II. Three young children have gone missing and Delta Green believe it is linked to an old mansion in the Red Hook area of the city. Will our agents find out what happened before the Unnatural threat strikes again?...

Welcome to Damage Assessment - our look back at our actual plays, where we breakdown the scenario, talk about what went well, what could've gone better, and what might help you run the same scenario at your table. Under A Yellow Moon is a scenario we wrote especially for our live actual play at Cymera Festival in Edinburgh. Set in 1892 Edinburgh, our investigators must solve the murder of a visiti...

Watch as a full video on our YouTube channel Join us for the second (and final) part of the recording of our live Call of Cthulhu/Cthulhu by Gaslight scenario, recorded at Cymera Festival in June 2026. When a visiting professor from Miskatonic University turns up dead, a motley group of investigators are put into a race against time to find her killer. Why was she murdered? And what happened to th...

Watch as a full video episode on YouTube Join us for the first part of the recording of our live Call of Cthulhu/Cthulhu by Gaslight scenario, recorded at Cymera Festival in June 2026. When a visiting professor from Miskatonic University turns up dead, a motley group of investigators are put into a race against time to find her killer. Why was she murdered? And what happened to the manuscript she...

Watch as a full video interview on YouTube Chris Lackey is a podcaster, writer and TTRPG creator who has hosted the H.P. Lovecraft Literary Podcast and Strange Studies of Strange Stories Podcast. Also an American filmmaker and animator, Chris directed and co-wrote the animated feature film The Chosen One and was the associate producer of the films The Call of Cthulhu and The Whisperer in the Darkn...

Watch as a full video interview on our YouTube channel Matthew Capodicasa is one of the founding members of the Glass Cannon Network, one of the leading actual play podcasts, as well as being an award-winning playwright whose work has been developed and presented across the globe. In addition to his extensive theater work, he has Film/TV projects in development with Annapurna Pictures, Anonymous C...

Watch as a full video episode on YouTube Four heroes searching for vengeance against one man: Gaedren Lamm. Last time our heroes managed to take down three of Gaedren's henchmen, only to leave themselves in a precarious position in the hold of an old ship. Can they survive - and finally find their quarry? In the final part (for now!) of our miniseries, we play through an adapted version of Haunted...