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Content Warnings: Warfare and political disruption, indoctrination, assassination, timetravel disruption, allegories of climate change and animal cruelty, mentions of alcohol and guns Show Notes This week, Fiona is joined by Dillin from One Shot Podcast for 'The Words We Leave Behind', a duet epistolary RPG about the butterfly effect, war, love and hate inspired by the novella, 'This Is How You Lo...

Show Notes To tide us over til our next one-shot, here's a bonus episode where our host and GM Fiona chats to Kat 'the Lore Mistress' and Josh Arklin, part of the Hatched Games team. Hatched Games is an up and coming UK TTRPG publisher, with a focus on horror zines showcasing a new TTRPG system (SRD) in each one of their seasons. Their first project, GAST, is a solo folk horror zine collection cro...

Content Warnings: Violence, Fighting, Grief, Loss, Heroic Sacrifice Show Notes This week, Fiona is joined by Lou Fryer and Maddy Searle for a special livestream of 'Prequel: A Tactical Storytelling Game of Heroic Sacrifice'. Designed by Ethan Yen and James Quigley, Prequel is a tactical storytelling game of heroic sacrifice for 3-5 players. You are the first group of Heroes that have reached the E...

Show Notes To tide us over til our next one-shot, here's a bonus episode where our host and GM Fiona chats to Ethan Yen & James Quigley, lead designers behind 'Prequel: A Tactical Storytelling Game of Heroic Sacrifice'! In 'Prequel: A Tactical Storytelling Game of Heroic Sacrifice', players play doomed heroes fighting against their final adversary. Over the course of the game, they play out a tact...

Content Warnings: Crude humour in the comedic stylings of Monty Python! Show Notes This week, Fiona is joined by Nathan Blades, Naomi Clarke, and special guest Head of Light Entertainment (HoLE) Brian Saliba from Crowbar Creative for 'Monty Python's Cocurricular Mediaeval Reenactment Programme': The extremely officially licensed Monty Python tabletop role-playing game. 'Monty Python's Cocurricular...

Show Notes To tide us over til our next one-shot, here's a bonus episode where our host and GM Fiona chats to Luke Green aka Thrythlind, one of the co authors of the Slayer’s Survival Kit and Hunter’s Journal, two new supplements to equip hunters with everything they need for Monster of the Week. The Slayer’s Survival Kit and Hunter’s Journal offers up new playbooks, new story options, additional...

Content Warnings: Cannibalism, Body Horror, Death, Decay and Gore, Abandonment and Difficult child/parent relationships. Show Notes This week, Fiona is joined by Ryan, Saul, Audrey, Liz and special guest facilitator Graham Gent for 'Under the Autumn Strangely': A storytelling game of pastoral horror priming with anachronistic Americana set in a land that Never Was. Inspired by "Over the Garden Wal...

Show Notes This week, Fiona is joined by Tay and Dan (from the Backwater Bastards) and Brianna and Emily (from the Gamewoven podcast) for a very special livestream of 'You Awaken In A Strange Place’, a fully improvised roleplaying game for 4 players, designed by Jacob Andrews. This oneshot’s audio was taken from a livestream as part of the OneShot Podcast Network Patreon Drive. If you enjoyed this...

Show Notes To tide us over til our next one-shot, here's a bonus episode where our host and GM Fiona chats to Jeff Stormer, award winning podcaster, games designer and the host of Party of One podcast (amongst many others)! Many folks will know of Jeff’s amazing podcast Party of One - an actual-play podcast focused on two-player roleplaying experiences. Every week, he sits down with friends for a...

Solemn Vale: Of Oak & Holly is now out on wherever you listen to podcasts! Check out Realms of Peril and Glory for the full series! Listener discretion is advised. Welcome to Solemn Vale, You’ll Never Leave… When four school friends reunite for Christmas many years later in their hometown, all of their old grudges bubble to the surface. Little do they know that the walls are closing in around them...

Show Notes To tide us over til our next one-shot, here's a bonus episode where our host and GM Fiona chats to Brian Nisbet about his work as the organiser of Dragonmeet's charity auction and how such charity events enhance a convention's reputation as a whole! Recorded live at Dragonmeet 2024. Timestamps Intro: 00:00:10 Q&A start: 00:01:11 Outro: 00:28:11 Find out more about Irish Games Associatio...

This is a special feed drop of a brand new actual play podcast - Realms' Blood on the Clocktower! Do you love The Traitors, Werewolf and Mafia? Welcome to the next level of social deduction, Blood on the Clocktower. Each episode is stacked to the brim with subterfuge and betrayal! With guests from No Rolls Barred, The Pandemonium Institute, Dropout, Oxventure and beyond, you won't be able to stop...

Show Notes To tide us over til our next one-shot, here's a bonus episode where our host and GM Fiona chats to Grant Howitt and Matt Sanders from Rowan, Rook and Decard, the UK TTRPG company behind Spire, Heart and many more, about their experiences running specialised RPG megagames at conventions! Timestamps Intro: 00:00:10 Q&A start: 00:01:44 Outro: 00:42:32 Q&A Guest’s work & recommendations Row...

Show Notes To tide us over til our next one-shot, here's a bonus episode where our host and GM Fiona interviews Emma Larkins, the creator of Abandon All Artichokes, Starry Night Sky, Squabblin Goblins, and the upcoming storytelling game: Epilogue: Finish your Story! In Epilogue, players will cooperatively improvise a story about how they all died based on connected word fragments between cards. Pl...

Content Warnings/Trigger Warnings: Violence towards animals, Offscreen death, Slasher and supernatural killers. Show Notes This week, Fiona is joined by Chloe, Katie, Ellie and Am from the Deck of Many Aces podcast for SHIVER, the award winning tabletop roleplaying game bringing tales of the mysterious, the peculiar and the strange to life. Published by Parable Games, SHIVER has easy to learn rule...

Content Warnings/Trigger Warnings: Violence towards animals, Offscreen death, Slasher and supernatural killers. Show Notes This week, Fiona is joined by Chloe, Katie, Ellie and Am from the Deck of Many Aces podcast for SHIVER, the award winning tabletop roleplaying game bringing tales of the mysterious, the peculiar and the strange to life. Published by Parable Games, SHIVER has easy to learn rule...

Content Warnings: Guns, Violence, Death, The capture and taming of wild animals, and Bad Accents (mostly from Fiona) Show notes A WAIR x Effekt Podcast Livestream Collaboration to celebrate the end of the Tales of The Old West Kickstarter! The Sherwoods is a family of homesteaders, taking a day off from the farm to catch a wild horse as a birthday treat for the youngest member of the family, on th...

Show Notes This episode is a little different to our usual fortnightly release as it’s an announcement kind of episode! WAIR's host Fiona talks through some exciting updates and announcements which have been happening over the last few weeks! Timestamps Intro: 00:00:00 Big announcement reveal: 00:00:30 Tales of the Old West Livestream: 00:02:59 Once A Hero on RPGeeks: 00:04:19 EUPhoria Solo Stream...

Show Notes To tide us over til our next one-shot, here's a bonus episode where our host and GM Fiona interviews Craig Duffy of LunarShadow Designs, a UK designer and Tabletop enthusiast who publishes games with a focus on science fiction space opera and Cold War espionage. A number of Craig’s work takes place in the Dyson Eclipse, a space opera setting which tells one story at a time through a ser...

Show Notes To tide us over til our next one-shot, here's a bonus episode where our host and GM Fiona interviews Matthew Tyler-Jones and David Semark, cohosts of the Effekt Podcast and lead designers on the upcoming game, Tales of the Old West. Tales of the Old West takes players to the Wild West of the 1870s, in a gritty historical tabletop roleplaying game based on Free League’s acclaimed Year Ze...

Content Warnings/Trigger Warnings: Death, dying and variations there upon, feelings of being lost and loneliness, memory loss, mentions of gambling. Show Notes This week, Fiona is playing The Last Tea Shop, a solo journaling game about tea and conversation. Written by Spring Villager, The Last Tea Shop lets players run a tea shop on the border of the living and the dead. The recently deceased visi...

Show Notes To tide us over til our next one-shot, here's a bonus episode where our host and GM Fiona interviews game designer Yvris Burke of Button Kin Games. Established in 2020, Button Kin Games is an independent TTRPG publisher based in Manchester and home to whimsical and strange TTRPGs with unusual themes, and a smattering of D&D 5e content. Drawing on a life long love of sci fi, fantasy, whi...

Show Notes This week, Fiona tries her hand at building her very own setting prompt by prompt, using Angeline Trevena’s ‘30 Days of Worldbuilding: An Author’s Step-by-Step Guide to Building Fictional Worlds’. Overwhelmed by creating fantasy worlds? Lost in your world? Unsure where to go next? 30 Days of Worldbuilding breaks the task into manageable chunks. By following 30 creative prompts, this boo...

Show Notes This week, Fiona tries her hand at building her very own setting prompt by prompt, using Angeline Trevena’s ‘30 Days of Worldbuilding: An Author’s Step-by-Step Guide to Building Fictional Worlds’. Overwhelmed by creating fantasy worlds? Lost in your world? Unsure where to go next? 30 Days of Worldbuilding breaks the task into manageable chunks. By following 30 creative prompts, this boo...

Show Notes This week, Fiona tries her hand at building her very own setting prompt by prompt, using Angeline Trevena’s ‘30 Days of Worldbuilding: An Author’s Step-by-Step Guide to Building Fictional Worlds’. Overwhelmed by creating fantasy worlds? Lost in your world? Unsure where to go next? 30 Days of Worldbuilding breaks the task into manageable chunks. By following 30 creative prompts, this boo...