Relatable Rolls

Max and Claire sit down to review Heart: The City Beneath, a game best described as a Cronenbergian Storytelling Dungeon Delve. They touch upon it's beautifully bizarre and intriguing characters and world, how it differs from other fantasy RPGs, and try to figure out if this is even a game either of them are capable of running or playing in. Opening: Pablo Perez - Skin Wax 

Sometimes you can't get a group of investigators together to investigate horrors beyond comprehension and have to set off on your own. Call of Cthulhu's Alone Against the Tide puts a single player in a remote lakeside Massachusetts town with the wealthy elite having more than a few secrets among them. Will Max and Claire discover the origins of the strange green fog enveloping the town, or what th...

Trapped in Hook House, the intrepid trio travel to places high and low as they try and find their escape but spirits to rest.   Claire - Game Master Ethan - Quincy Cranford, The Cunning Detective Colleen - Brittany, The Popular Kid Max - Gregorio Gregorvich, The Mysterious Transfer   Colleen streams on Twitch , go give her a follow or checkout her website about movie musicals. Or find it all on he...

Facing their fears, three kids on their trusty bikes decide to explore the old abandoned house atop Hook Hill. Will they discover it's secrets and make it out, or will the house claim three more souls?  Claire - Game Master Ethan - Quincy Cranford, The Cunning Detective Colleen - Brittany, The Popular Kid Max - Gregorio Gregorvich, The Mysterious Transfer   Colleen streams on Twitch , go give her...

With many of the seminal works in PC Immersive sims turning 25 years old, Max and Claire sit down to document how the genre of games came to be, what they mean to each of them, and what they can take from them when designing RPG scenarios. Max will be at Gen Con, seek him out or hit him up on Bluesky. We'll be back with actual plays next episode. Opening: Geb - Nobs are for Twisting

Max and Claire decide to change things up a bit this episode by delving into the genre of Point & Click Computer adventure games, covering everything from the history of the genre, their personal favorites from the 90s and the modern day, how Moon Logic can be applied to TTRPGs, and even unlocking a few core memories throughout the discussion.  Opening: 1000z Hands - Kraken

A group of Forestry Majors staying in the woods to complete their senior level courses discover their classmates have disappeared in the night. Will they survive the trek through the woods and unseasonable weather to discover their fate? Cast: Ethan - Fred Reyes, Forestry Student Robert - Tyler Bryson, Forestry Student Claire - Tara Parks, Forestry Student Max - Handler Check out Ethan's RPG Podca...

With the Darkfield Memo in hand, the Moments with Mothman crew return to La Fontainne Street to discover just deep the corruption runs, and if they will be able to stop it... Cast: Connor - Dyllon Flemming, Producer Dan - Derek "DC" Chesterson, Videographer Claire - Bethany Fuller, Host Max - Handler Opening: Audioinsmusic - Darkscape Get a copy of Darkfield by joining the Patreon of our good frie...

Youtube cryptid sensations, Moments with Mothman, receive an anonymous submission about an unknown and undiscovered creature spotted in La Fontaine, Missouri. Is this the show's opportunity to take their operation to the next level? Cast: Connor - Dyllon Flemming, Producer Dan - Derek "DC" Chesterson, Videographer Claire - Bethany Fuller, Host Max - Handler Opening: Audioinsmusic - Darkscape Get a...

The F.A.N.G. operatives continue their assault on occupied Paris, will they reach the Zeppelin docked atop the Eiffel Tower? Cast: Iryna - Maddy Nicole - Claire Chuck - Lyme Flint - Dan VK Everything Else - Max Support all of our friend's creative endeavors Lyme's Itch.io  and find us all on Bluesky.  Opening: HoliznaCCo - Nocturnal

A group of F.A.N.G. operatives are coffin-dropped into occupied Paris with one objective: drink Adolf Hitler's blood. Cast: Iryna - Maddy Nicole - Claire Chuck - Lyme Flint - Dan VK Everything Else - Max Support all of our friend's creative endeavors Lyme's Itch.io  and find us all on Bluesky.  Opening: HoliznaCCo - Nocturnal

After dealing with the Teufel Terror, Romilda, Richter, and Fiete are given an opportunity by Ilse Fassenwütend that could free them from the Ubersreik Town Guard and the glory stealing Sgt. Klumpenklug. Cast: Claire - Romilda Zimmerschlaf, Noble Max - Richter Wurstwich, Boatman Robert - Fiete Brotzmann, Hedge Witch Noah - GM Check out everything Noah is up to at KamenOtaku.com  Opening: Arnald -...

Max and Claire sit down with Caleb Stokes to talk about the Red Markets 2nd Edition Beta, Caleb's game of Economic Horror. They touch upon the lessons learned from the first edition, whether or not Caleb's 2016 predictions on how society would react to a Zombie Apocalypse were too crazy or not crazy enough by 2025's standards, the enduring and involving interest of zombies over the decades, the od...

Romilda, Richter, and Fiete take on the Teufel Terror. Will they live to see the next patrol, or will they end up a snack? Cast: Claire - Romilda Zimmerschlaf, Noble Max - Richter Wurstwich, Boatman Robert - Fiete Brotzmann, Hedge Witch Noah - GM Check out Noah's podcast Thinking Too Hard About Anime Opening: Arnald - Cupboard

Gathering for one last time, the cast of Impossible Landscapes reflects on all 15 sessions of the campaign and dives in to all the behind-the-scenes information, favorite moments, and secrets that you could want on the longest Relatable Rolls campaign we've done yet!

Cell S has made it to the heart of Carcosa, what terrors and revelations will they discover at the Masquerade, and will any of them escape? Claire: Sawyer Michaels, Urban Infrastructure Systems Professor Robert: Ted Williams Sullivan, NSA Analyst  Noah: Sawyer's Megalomania / Felix Turner Ben: Michael Witwer, DEA Special Agent Max: Handler Check out Ben's work for the SCP Foundation here find him...

Newly appointed members of the Ubersreik Town Guard Romilda, Richter, and Fiete learn the ins-and-outs of law "enforcement" dealing with fires, barroom brawls, restless spirits, and missing people. Cast: Claire - Romilda Zimmerschlaf, Noble Max - Richter Wurstwich, Boatman Robert - Fiete Brotzmann, Hedge Witch Noah - GM Check out Noah's podcast Thinking Too Hard About Anime Opening: Arnald - Cupbo...

Orcs, one of the mainstays of fantasy that you'll likely encounter no matter what game you're playing or high fantasy story you're reading. Why are they so iconic, why do we love to fight them, and why does game designer Lyme love them so much that he's a designed an entire game about them? Listen and find out as Max and Claire learn all about Lyme's upcoming Kickstarter project, The Dawn of the O...

Awakening in Carcosa, Cell S begins their journey to The Palace. Claire: Sawyer Michaels, Urban Infrastructure Systems Professor Robert: Ted Williams Sullivan, NSA Analyst  Noah: Sawyer's Megalomania / The Anarchist Ben: Michael Witwer, DEA Special Agent Max: Handler Check out Ben's work for the SCP Foundation here find him on socials as djkaktus Check out Noah's podcast Thinking Too Hard About An...

Cell S has finally reached Hotel Broadalbin, what dangers and secrets lie within its endless corridors, and will they became permanent guests of it's crumbling decadence? Claire: Sawyer Michaels, Urban Infrastructure Systems Professor Robert: Ted Williams Sullivan, NSA Analyst  Noah: Felix Turner, Retired US Marshall  Max: Handler Check out Noah's podcast Thinking Too Hard About Anime Opening: Phi...

Their first task for Wist/Wilde complete, Cell S heads for St Paul, Minnesota to complete the second. What horrors will they encounter upon the open road? Will they evade their multiple pursuers? Claire: Sawyer Michaels, Urban Infrastructure Systems Professor Robert: Ted Williams Sullivan, NSA Analyst  Noah: Felix Turner, Retired US Marshall  Ben: Michael Witwer, DEA Special Agent Max: Handler Che...

Here on Relatable Rolls you've heard about how the proverbial sausage is made, but what about the person who sells the sausage at the sausage store, and how are those sausage stores doing after the events of the last handful of years? What is the sausage market looking like these days? Ok this metaphor has gone on long enough. We sat down with Dan VK of Gather & Game to talk about the state of Gam...

Escaping the Night Floors with the burden of knowledge, Cell S deals with the consequences of a shifting reality that does not want them there. Or was it always this way? Claire: Sawyer Michaels, Urban Infrastructure Systems Professor Robert: Ted Williams Sullivan, NSA Analyst  Noah: Felix Turner, Retired US Marshall  Ben: Michael Witwer, DEA Special Agent Max: Handler Check out Ben's work for the...

Cell S has found themselves back in the Night Floors, this time as patients of The Dorchester House. Will they be able to escape back to "reality" or has this entire affair just been one huge delusion like the attending physician claims?  Claire: Sawyer Michaels, Urban Infrastructure Systems Professor Robert: Ted Williams Sullivan, NSA Analyst  Noah: Felix Turner, Retired US Marshall  Ben: Buck Mo...

After a disastrous evening, Delta Green sends in a fixer to discern why Cell S has been deployed to the Boston theater.   Claire: Sawyer Michaels, Urban Infrastructure Systems Professor Robert: Ted Williams Sullivan, NSA Analyst  Noah: Felix Turner, Retired US Marshall  Ben: Buck Morgan, CIA Case Officer Max: Handler Check out Ben's work for the SCP Foundation here find him on socials as djkaktus...