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Content Warnings/Trigger Warnings: Murder, Torture, Teenage drama, Violence, Alcohol and Substance abuse, Emotional manipulation, and terrible GM practices. Show Notes This week, Fiona is joined by Evelyn, Celena, James, Matthew and Matt for DIE: The Roleplaying Game, created by Kieron Gillen and Stephanie Hans, and published by Rowan Rook and Decard. Based on the comic of the same name, DIE is ab...

Show Notes To tide us over til our next one-shot, here's a bonus episode where our host and GM Fiona interviews comic book writer and game designer Kieron Gillen about DIE the RPG, a bleak fantasy TTRPG based on the comic series of the same name (also made by Kieron Gillen and Stephanie Hans) In DIE, you play a group of authentically flawed and desperate real-world people (Personas) who are sucked...

Show Notes This week, a special live recording from UK Games Expo of Be Our Guest - a live actual show in collaboration with Girls Run These Worlds! Girls Run These Worlds is a women-owned, women-run production studio. Their mission is to uplift the voices, profiles, and status of women and femme-presenting people in TTRPG and to create a place where all can come to find themselves represented and...

Show Notes This week, Fiona is joined by Taylor, Dan and Dick from the Backwater Bastards and special guest GM Kyle from Quest Friends for Under The Neighbourhood, a TTRPG where players live out adventures from their favourite Saturday morning cartoons. Under the Neighborhood is a roleplaying system designed to help you and your friends tell stories about the magic found in going to the grocery st...

Content Warnings/Trigger Warnings: Dark themes, Murder, Spiders, Mild gore. Show Notes This week, Fiona is joined by the cast of the Merely Roleplayers podcast (Nat, Strat and Helen) and extra special guest GM Jason Cordova for The Between, a tabletop roleplaying game about a group of mysterious monster hunters in Victorian-era London. Note: The audio for this episode comes from the 2 part livestr...

Content Warnings/Trigger Warnings: Dark themes, Murder, Spiders, Mild gore. Show Notes This week, Fiona is joined by the cast of the Merely Roleplayers podcast (Nat, Strat and Helen) and extra special guest GM Jason Cordova for The Between, a tabletop roleplaying game about a group of mysterious monster hunters in Victorian-era London. Note: The audio for this episode comes from the 2 part livestr...

Content Warnings/Trigger Warnings: Dark themes, Murder, Spiders, Mild gore. Show Notes This week, Fiona is joined by the cast of the Merely Roleplayers podcast (Nat, Strat and Helen) and extra special guest GM Jason Cordova for The Between, a tabletop roleplaying game about a group of mysterious monster hunters in Victorian-era London. Note: The audio for this episode comes from the 2 part livestr...

Content Warnings/Trigger Warnings: Dark themes, Murder, Spiders, Mild gore. Show Notes This week, Fiona is joined by the cast of the Merely Roleplayers podcast (Nat, Strat and Helen) and extra special guest GM Jason Cordova for The Between, a tabletop roleplaying game about a group of mysterious monster hunters in Victorian-era London. Note: The audio for this episode comes from the 2 part livestr...

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 Jason Cordova, the creator behind Brindlewood Bay, The Between, and most recently, Public Access. Along with his game writing and being an ENnie award-winning podcaster, Jason is the founder of The Gauntlet - a community that celebrates and discusses tabletop roleplaying ga...

Show Notes This week, Fiona is joined by the cast of the Merely Roleplayers podcast (Matt, Strat, Nat, and Alex) for Yazeba's Bed & Breakfast, a slice-of-life tabletop RPG about a heartless witch, a peaceful house and all the folks who have made their home inside. Created by Jay Dragon and M Veselak, Yazeba’s Bed & Breakfast uses pre-set characters, quick-play chapters, and an adaptable rule set,...

Show Notes This week, Fiona is joined by the cast of the Merely Roleplayers podcast (Matt, Strat, Nat, and Alex) for Yazeba's Bed & Breakfast, a slice-of-life tabletop RPG about a heartless witch, a peaceful house and all the folks who have made their home inside. Created by Jay Dragon and M Veselak, Yazeba’s Bed & Breakfast uses pre-set characters, quick-play chapters, and an adaptable rule set,...

Spoilers for 'Edgar' introductory scenario by Oliver Vulliamy and 2dSF in Itras By: Menagerie Show Notes This week, Fiona is joined by Doro, Frank, Jon, Kat, and special GM Rob for Itras By: A surreal roleplaying game set in a city full of strange occurrences, unusual places, and bizarre characters. Published by Vagrant Workshop, Itras By is a setting that lies somewhere between European city life...

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 and illustrator Fede Sohns about their upcoming RPG, 'Zephyr: An Anarchist Fantasy Game of Fleeting Identities'. The Zephyr are the feelings of a living sentient landmass called Ophio that wanders across endless salt flats. The alien feelings come in the colours of cyan, ma...

Show Notes To tide us over til our next one-shot, here's a bonus episode where our host and GM Fiona interviews Ferruccio Argento, the lead designer of the upcoming dark fantasy tabletop RPG - Blood and Doom (to be published by Dicetale Games). In Blood and Doom, players take on the role of adventurers in a doomed world where the influence of malevolent cults is slowly corrupting the land and its...

Show Notes To round off this year (or welcome in the new year - depending on your view), check out the audio from MCM Comic Con's A Behind the Screens Look: Game Master's Roundtable panel, featuring our own host and main GM Fiona! Panel bio: 'If you fancy yourself a DM, don’t miss this one! Game Masters Travis Vengroff (Fool & Scholar/Dark Dice), Richard Kimber-Bell (Backwater Bastards), Fiona K.T...

Show Notes To tide us over til our next one-shot, here's a bonus episode where our host and GM Fiona interviews award-winning game writer & author Andrew E.C. Gaska!  With over 2 decades of experience in the comics and video games industries, it is safe to say that Drew has a long list of credits to his name! His freelance franchise consulting work for 20th Century Fox has seen him write numerous...

Content Warnings/Trigger Warnings: Themes of loneliness, sadness, depression, and social anxiety Show Notes This week, Fiona is playing 'User is typing // Message Sent’: A solo RPG of instant messaging and anxiety by Nevyn Holmes. Using a deck of playing cards and 3d6, 'User is typing // Message Sent’ is a game about dealing with the social anxiety around interacting with the same people day in, d...

Content Warnings/Trigger Warnings: Death, Violence, Alpha Complex Spoilers for '[Your Security Clearance Is Not High Enough For The Title Of This Adventure]' mission! Show Notes This week, Fiona is joined by Tim, Alastair, Ben, Josh and Kylie from Dunking on the DM for ‘Paranoia’, a dystopian science-fiction tabletop role-playing game, published by Mongoose Publishing. First published in 1984, ‘Pa...

Content Warnings/Trigger Warnings: Death, Violence, Alpha Complex Spoilers for '[Your Security Clearance Is Not High Enough For The Title Of This Adventure]' mission! Show Notes This week, Fiona is joined by Tim, Alastair, Ben, Josh and Kylie from Dunking on the DM for ‘Paranoia’, a dystopian science-fiction tabletop role-playing game, published by Mongoose Publishing. First published in 1984, ‘Pa...

Show Notes This week, Fiona was joined by Raymond (from Boardgame Heaven) and Sarah for WAIR's very first collaboration Livestream with friend of the podcast, Johno at BARPIG: The Adventure Party Game, showcasing several challenges for its latest expansion - The Great Festival. This bonus episode audio is taken from the livestream video. Check out the unedited VOD on our YouTube channel. BARPIG is...

Show Notes To tide us over til our next one-shot, here's a bonus episode where our host and GM Fiona interviews interviewing the co-founder and CEO of Free League Publishing, Tomas Härenstam, about the upcoming ‘Dragonbane’ RPG, a reimagining of the influential ‘Drakar och Demoner’. ‘Drakar och Demoner’ is Scandinavia's first and biggest tabletop RPG, originally launched in 1982. Now, 40 years lat...

Show Notes To tide us over til our next one-shot, here's a bonus episode where our host and GM Fiona interviews Charlie Menzies, the lead designer behind ‘SHIVER’ - the award-winning tabletop roleplaying game that lets players bring their favourite scary movies, spooky tv shows, and horror stories to life.  Ever wanted to play through the plot of your favourite film on the tabletop? Or wanted to m...

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, writer and editor Graeme Davis about his latest project ‘Mythic Britain & Ireland’ - the new expansion to the award-winning ‘Vaesen – Nordic Horror Roleplaying’. Written by Nils Hintze and based on the work of Swedish illustrator and author Johan Egerkrans, ‘Vaesen’ presen...

Show Notes This week, Fiona is joined by David, Mark and Sarah for '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 live convention game for ArchaeoGaming Con 2022 (ARGACON), a gaming convention and archaeological conference to share ArchaeoGaming research and gameplay with a virtual audience. 'You...

Content Warnings: Politically motivated violence, Body Horror, Dystopian themes, Politics Show Notes This week, Fiona is joined by David, Ben and JT for ‘Shadow of Mogg: The Post Brexit RPG’, written by Panayiotis Lines and published by Leyline Press. ‘Shadow of Mogg‘ is a post-apocalyptic tabletop roleplaying game set in the London underground following a catastrophic occurrence known only as ‘th...