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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...

Show Notes To tide us over til our next one-shot, here's a bonus episode where our host and GM Fiona interviews game designers Chris McDowall and Johan Nohr about the upcoming remastered release of ‘Into The Odd’, a rules-light, flavour-heavy roleplaying game of industrial horror and cosmic strangeness. Bastion is the only city that matters. In its industrial age, it sits as the smoke-shrouded hub...

Show Notes This week, Fiona is joined by special guests, Andrew and Drew from Rooster Teeth’s The Most, and Sarah for 'You Awaken In A Strange Place’, a fully improvised roleplaying game for 4 players, designed by Jacob Andrews. 'You Awaken In A Strange Place’ is a fully improvised, one-shot TTRPG that requires zero preparation and only a few hours of time. Follow the game's instructions to determ...

Spoilers for ‘Beneath the Pyramid’ adventure from ‘Weird Discoveries: 10 instant adventures for Numenera’ Show Notes This week, Fiona is joined by Tristen, Noel and special guest GM Rob from the Realm for Fire podcast for ‘Numenera’: a science fantasy tabletop role-playing game set in the far distant future, written by Monte Cook and published by Monte Cook games. This is the Ninth World. The peop...

Spoilers for ‘Beneath the Pyramid’ adventure from ‘Weird Discoveries: 10 instant adventures for Numenera’ Show Notes This week, Fiona is joined by Tristen, Noel and special guest GM Rob from the Realm for Fire podcast for ‘Numenera’: a science fantasy tabletop role-playing game set in the far distant future, written by Monte Cook and published by Monte Cook games. This is the Ninth World. The peop...

Show Notes To tide us over til our next one-shot, here's a bonus episode where our host and GM Fiona interviews Mattias Johnsson Haake, one of the game designers of ‘Symbaroum’ and the upcoming 5e expansion ‘Ruins of Symbaroum’, a fantasy tabletop RPG, often described as dark, gritty and deadly. ‘Symbaroum’ revolves around the Ambrians – a civilization that, two decades ago, was forced to flee the...

Content warnings: Themes of isolation, dependency, trauma, futility, mental and physical health, violence and harassment toward women, gaslighting, smoking, loneliness and death Show Notes This week, Fiona is playing ‘Long Haul 1983’, a solo RPG that tells the story of a dangerous journey through an empty world, written by Sean Patrick Cain. In ‘Long Haul 1983’, players take on the role of a long-...

Content warnings: Themes of isolation, dependency, trauma, futility, mental and physical health, violence and harassment toward women, gaslighting, smoking, loneliness and death Show Notes This week, Fiona is playing ‘Long Haul 1983’, a solo RPG that tells the story of a dangerous journey through an empty world, written by Sean Patrick Cain. In ‘Long Haul 1983’, players take on the role of a long-...

Show Notes To tide us over til our next one-shot, here's a bonus episode where our host and GM Fiona interviews Christian Plogfors and Carl Niblaeus, game designers of ‘Death in Space’, a sci-fi tabletop roleplaying game that takes you to the grimy blue-collar future of a universe filled with risk, but also opportunity.  You can find out more about ‘Death in Space’ on their official website. Preor...

Show Notes To tide us over til our next one-shot, here's a bonus episode where our host and GM Fiona interviews Pelle Nilsson and Johan Nohr, game designers of ‘MÖRK BORG’, a pitch-black apocalyptic fantasy RPG about lost souls and fools seeking redemption, forgiveness or the last remaining riches in a bleak and decaying world. You can find out more about ‘MÖRK BORG’ on their official website. Pre...

Content warnings: Politically motivated violence, oppression death, grief and police brutality Show Notes This week, Fiona is joined by David for ‘Mars Colony: 39 Dark’, a sci-fi political roleplaying game about political freedom and standing up for what’s right. Written by Tim C Koppang and published by TCK Roleplaying, ‘Mars Colony: 39 Dark’ is a standalone tabletop roleplaying game designed spe...

Content warnings: Politically motivated violence, oppression death, grief and police brutality Show Notes This week, Fiona is joined by David for ‘Mars Colony: 39 Dark’, a sci-fi political roleplaying game about political freedom and standing up for what’s right. Written by Tim C Koppang and published by TCK Roleplaying, ‘Mars Colony: 39 Dark’ is a standalone tabletop roleplaying game designed spe...

Content warnings: Politically motivated violence, oppression death, grief and police brutality Show Notes This week, Fiona is joined by David for ‘Mars Colony: 39 Dark’, a sci-fi political roleplaying game about political freedom and standing up for what’s right. Written by Tim C Koppang and published by TCK Roleplaying, ‘Mars Colony: 39 Dark’ is a standalone tabletop roleplaying game designed spe...

Content warnings: Politically motivated violence, oppression death, grief and police brutality Show Notes This week, Fiona is joined by David for ‘Mars Colony: 39 Dark’, a sci-fi political roleplaying game about political freedom and standing up for what’s right. Written by Tim C Koppang and published by TCK Roleplaying, ‘Mars Colony: 39 Dark’ is a standalone tabletop roleplaying game designed spe...

Content Warnings: Intense Interpersonal Strain Fantasy Threat and Violence Depictions of grief Show Notes Today’s sponsored episode is from Realms of Peril & Glory, an all-new actual play podcast from the Light & Tragic Company. Each season of Realms of Peril & Glory is a new story told collaboratively at the table using a different RPG system. Their first season, Vael, is a 5 part epic mystery th...

Spoilers for the Salvage Union Quickstart Adventure: The Downing of the Atychos Show Notes This week, Fiona is joined by David, Ben, Viv and Rob for ‘Salvage Union’, a post-apocalyptic mech tabletop roleplaying game published by Leyline Press. The world is dead. Arcologies dot the landscape but are home only to the corporate elites and those who serve them. Those who wish for freedom live instead...

Spoilers for the Salvage Union Quickstart Adventure: The Downing of the Atychos Show Notes This week, Fiona is joined by David, Ben, Viv and Rob for ‘Salvage Union’, a post-apocalyptic mech tabletop roleplaying game published by Leyline Press. The world is dead. Arcologies dot the landscape but are home only to the corporate elites and those who serve them. Those who wish for freedom live instead...

Show Notes To tide us over til our next one-shot, here's a bonus episode where our host and GM Fiona interviews Aled Lawtor and Panayiotis Lines, co-founders of Leyline Press, a London tabletop gaming company that produces indie roleplaying games and sci-fi & fantasy adventure modules for a wide range of RPG systems. Their latest project, ‘Salvage Union’, is a post-apocalyptic mech tabletop rolepl...

Show Notes This bonus episode comes from our sibling podcast, ‘The DM’s Book Club’, a weekly podcast where the hosts talk about some Dungeons & Dragons and discuss how to include it in our roleplaying games. Originally released on The DM’s Book Club podcast on 11th August 2021. From the episode show notes: 'This week, Fiona chats with Keith Ammann, ENnie-winning author of the 5th edition D&D-focus...

Content Warnings: Violence & drug use Show Notes This week, Fiona is joined by Tristen, Dirk and special guest GM Rob from the Realm of Fire podcast for 'Vurt: The Tabletop Roleplaying Game' published by Ravendesk games! 'Vurt' is an RPG based on the visionary and hallucinatory science fiction novel of Jeff Noon. Amid the glass-strewn streets of the lethal and anarchic Manchester England of the ne...

Content Warnings: Violence & drug use Show Notes This week, Fiona is joined by Tristen, Dirk and special guest GM Rob from the Realm of Fire podcast for 'Vurt: The Tabletop Roleplaying Game' published by Ravendesk games! 'Vurt' is an RPG based on the visionary and hallucinatory science fiction novel of Jeff Noon. Amid the glass-strewn streets of the lethal and anarchic Manchester England of the ne...

Show Notes This week, Fiona tries out some backstory prompts and activities from ‘The Ultimate RPG Character Backstory Guide’ by James D’Amato. So you’ve chosen your class, bought your weapons, and rolled for your stats, and you’re now the proud owner of your own RPG avatar. But before you begin your adventure, there’s so much more you can do with your character to make them unique! Just how evil...

Show Notes This week, Fiona is joined by Callum, Tom and Naomi and extra special guest GM Chris, from Darker Days Radio podcast, for ‘Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay’ a tabletop RPG published by Cubicle 7 set in the Warhammer Fantasy setting. ‘Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay’ takes players back to the Old World where they must make their way through the vile corruption, scheming plotters and terrifying crea...

Show Notes This week, Fiona is joined by Callum, Tom and Naomi and extra special guest GM Chris, from Darker Days Radio podcast, for ‘Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay’ a tabletop RPG published by Cubicle 7 set in the Warhammer Fantasy setting. ‘Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay’ takes players back to the Old World where they must make their way through the vile corruption, scheming plotters and terrifying crea...

Show Notes This week, Fiona is joined by special guests, Andrew and Drew from Rooster Teeth’s The Most for Jim Henson’s ‘Labyrinth Adventure Game’, a TTRPG-based magical world of Jim Henson’s Labyrinth published by Riverhorse Games. Have you ever asked the question: what if Sarah asked the Helping Hands to go up rather than down? Have you ever wondered how you would have fared in this dangerous an...