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Content warnings (not limited to): Body horror, betrayal, relationships, lack of agency, emotional manipulation, eating disorders and violence towards female characters Show Notes This week, Fiona is joined by Hazel, Mariam, Vivienne, David and Amy for ‘Bluebeard’s Bride’, a tabletop roleplaying game of supernatural horror set in a familiar fairy tale written by Whitney ‘Strix’ Beltran, Marissa Ke...

Content warnings (not limited to): Body horror, betrayal, relationships, lack of agency, emotional manipulation, eating disorders and violence towards female characters Show Notes This week, Fiona is joined by Hazel, Mariam, Vivienne, David and Amy for ‘Bluebeard’s Bride’, a tabletop roleplaying game of supernatural horror set in a familiar fairy tale written by Whitney ‘Strix’ Beltran, Marissa Ke...

Content warnings: Death, loss and grief, betrayal, cryptid/animal attacks, breakdown of relationships, and mentions of alcohol Show Notes This week, Fiona is playing ‘Field Guide To Memory’, a connected path game about legacy, wonder, Cryptids, and the vastness of a human life, designed by Jeeyon Shim and Shing Yin Khor. Your mentor, the beloved and illustrious cryptid researcher Dr. Elizabeth Lee...

Content warnings: Death, loss and grief, betrayal, cryptid/animal attacks, breakdown of relationships, and mentions of alcohol Show Notes This week, Fiona is playing ‘Field Guide To Memory’, a connected path game about legacy, wonder, Cryptids, and the vastness of a human life, designed by Jeeyon Shim and Shing Yin Khor. Your mentor, the beloved and illustrious cryptid researcher Dr. Elizabeth Lee...

Content warnings: Death, loss and grief, betrayal, cryptid/animal attacks, breakdown of relationships, and mentions of alcohol Show Notes This week, Fiona is playing ‘Field Guide To Memory’, a connected path game about legacy, wonder, Cryptids, and the vastness of a human life, designed by Jeeyon Shim and Shing Yin Khor. Your mentor, the beloved and illustrious cryptid researcher Dr. Elizabeth Lee...

Content warnings: Death, loss and grief, betrayal, cryptid/animal attacks, breakdown of relationships, and mentions of alcohol Show Notes This week, Fiona is playing ‘Field Guide To Memory’, a connected path game about legacy, wonder, Cryptids, and the vastness of a human life, designed by Jeeyon Shim and Shing Yin Khor. Your mentor, the beloved and illustrious cryptid researcher Dr. Elizabeth Lee...

Show Notes To tide us over til our next one-shot, here's a bonus episode where our host and GM Fiona interviews Ben Costa & James Parks, creators and game designers of ‘Land of Eem’, a tabletop RPG based on their fantasy graphic novel series, ‘Rickety Stitch and the Gelatinous Goo’. You can find out more about ‘Land of Eem’ on their official website. Download the ‘Land of Eem’s Open Beta Bundle on...

Show Notes This week, Fiona is joined by Amy, Naomi, Callum, and El for the ‘Land of Eem’, a lighthearted fantasy adventure game designed and written by Ben Costa and James Parks. Based on the fantasy graphic novel series ‘Rickety Stitch and the Gelatinous Goo’, the ‘Land of Eem’ is a game about adventurers exploring and discovering the remnants of a forgotten, better age. Players take on the role...

Show Notes This week, Fiona is joined by Amy, Naomi, Callum, and El for the ‘Land of Eem’, a lighthearted fantasy adventure game designed and written by Ben Costa and James Parks. Based on the fantasy graphic novel series ‘Rickety Stitch and the Gelatinous Goo’, the ‘Land of Eem’ is a game about adventurers exploring and discovering the remnants of a forgotten, better age. Players take on the role...

Content Warnings/Trigger Warnings: Loneliness, Death, decay, emotion manipulation, and gaslighting Show Notes This week, Fiona is playing ‘Artefact’, a game of legendary items & transient heroes by Jack Harrison of MouseHole Press.  In ‘Artefact’, the player crafts a unique magical item and plays to find out how it changes as it passes through the hands of many different keepers. In many classic d...

Content Warnings/Trigger Warnings: Loneliness, Death, decay, emotion manipulation, and gaslighting Show Notes This week, Fiona is playing ‘Artefact’, a game of legendary items & transient heroes by Jack Harrison of MouseHole Press.  In ‘Artefact’, the player crafts a unique magical item and plays to find out how it changes as it passes through the hands of many different keepers. In many classic d...

Show Notes This week, Fiona is joined by David, Sam, Elle, and extra special guest GM Richard (from the D20 Future Show) for ‘The Expanse’ a tabletop RPG based on James S.A. Corey’s award-winning series of science fiction novels, published by Green Ronin. ‘The Expanse’ takes players to a far-future solar system where humanity is divided: Martians, Belters, and the people of old Earth struggle for...

Content Warnings/Trigger Warnings: Loneliness, depression, being lost, and animal suffering Show Notes This week, Fiona is playing ‘below’, a 10 day solo journaling game by Doug Levandowski. In ‘below’, you play a character who gets lost in an unfamiliar world and attempts to find their way back. As each day passes, the character reflects on what has happened to them and how they plan to get home....

Content Warnings/Trigger Warnings: Loneliness, depression, being lost, and animal suffering Show Notes This week, Fiona is playing ‘below’, a 10 day solo journaling game by Doug Levandowski. In ‘below’, you play a character who gets lost in an unfamiliar world and attempts to find their way back. As each day passes, the character reflects on what has happened to them and how they plan to get home....

Content Warnings/Trigger Warnings: Characters being injured, victimised, trapped or killed, drug abuse and/or self harm, illness, debilitation, body horror, memory loss, or altering memories. Show Notes This week, Fiona is playing ‘Thousand Year Old Vampire’, 3-time Ennie award lonely solo RPG by Tim Hutchings. In ‘Thousand Year Old Vampire’, you chronicle the unlife of a vampire over the many cen...

Content Warnings/Trigger Warnings: Characters being injured, victimised, trapped or killed, drug abuse and/or self harm, illness, debilitation, body horror, memory loss, or altering memories Show Notes This week, Fiona is playing ‘Thousand Year Old Vampire’, 3-time Ennie award lonely solo RPG by Tim Hutchings. In ‘Thousand Year Old Vampire’, you chronicle the unlife of a vampire over the many cent...

Show Notes To tide us over til our next one-shot, here's a bonus episode where our host and GM Fiona interviews Mikey Hamm, writer and game designer of ‘Slugblaster’, an upcoming tabletop RPG about small-town teenage hoverboarders who sneak into other dimensions. You can find out more about ‘Slugblaster’ and join the discord server on their official website. Timestamps Intro: 00:00:10 Q&A start: 0...

Show Notes For our last episode of 2020, we present ‘Dragons with Flagons!’ - our BARPIG Live D&D Game from this year’s UK Games Virtual Expo, courtesy of BARPIG & Coaching for Geeks. This bonus episode is the audio taken from the stream, where the players used character sheets based on BARPIG characters! You can watch the original video and more BARPIG content on their YouTube channel. You can fi...

Show Notes This week, Fiona is joined by Morgan, Diana, Kristin, Maggie, and Mariam from the ‘Powered By The Players’ podcast, for ‘Slugblaster’, a table-table RPG about teenagehood, giant bugs, circuit-bent rayguns, and trying to be cool. Designed by Mikey Hamm, ‘Slugblaster’ uses the Forged in the Dark engine, stripped-down and modified to power stuff like being stylish, circuit-bending ray guns...

Show Notes This week, Fiona is joined by Morgan, Diana, Kristin, Maggie, and Mariam from the ‘Powered By The Players’ podcast, for ‘Slugblaster’, a table-table RPG about teenagehood, giant bugs, circuit-bent rayguns, and trying to be cool. Designed by Mikey Hamm, ‘Slugblaster’ uses the Forged in the Dark engine, stripped-down and modified to power stuff like being stylish, circuit-bending ray guns...

Content Warnings/Trigger Warnings: Loss, memory loss and grief Show Notes This week, Fiona is joined by Matt, Nat, Josh, and Strat from the Merely Roleplayers Podcast for ‘Sleepaway’, a game of horror, dreams, and summer camp, written by Jay Dragon. In ‘Sleepaway’, players play as camp counsellors at a not-so-ordinary summer camp besieged by a strange and ominous cryptid known as the Lindworm. Iso...

Show Notes This week, Fiona is joined by Matt, Nat, Josh, and Strat from the Merely Roleplayers Podcast for ‘Sleepaway’, a game of horror, dreams, and summer camp, written by Jay Dragon. In ‘Sleepaway’, players play as camp counsellors at a not-so-ordinary summer camp besieged by a strange and ominous cryptid known as the Lindworm. Isolated from civilization, the summer camp is seen as a beacon of...

Show Notes This week, Fiona plays ‘Quill’, A Letter-Writing Roleplaying Game for a Single Player. Published by Trollish Delver Games, ‘Quill’' is a solo roleplaying game with a twist. You will write real letters, with the aim to craft the best, most beautiful missive possible in order to get a favourable response. But be warned, should you roll badly you could end up writing a bad letter. You can...

Content Warnings/Trigger Warnings: Kidnapping, guns, stabbings, PDST, violence, gore, body horror, dead bodies, and supernatural horror Spoilers for the ‘Amidst the ancient trees’ scenario in the Call of Cthulhu Keeper’s Rulebook 7th Edition Show Notes This week, Fiona is joined by Sam and David for ‘Call of Cthulhu’, a horror role-playing game inspired by the Cthulhu Mythos.  First released by Ch...

Content Warnings/Trigger Warnings: Kidnapping, guns, stabbings, PDST, violence, gore, body horror, dead bodies, and supernatural horror Spoilers for the ‘Amidst the ancient trees’ scenario in the Call of Cthulhu Keeper’s Rulebook 7th Edition Show Notes This week, Fiona is joined by Sam and David for ‘Call of Cthulhu’, a horror role-playing game inspired by the Cthulhu Mythos.  First released by Ch...