Inspired Incompetence

The search for the location of Mancatcher Cove continues as the gang searches for answers in the Shackles most sophisticated city. Will they find the answers they seek? And if they do, what will it cost them? Everything comes with a price. As always, please remember to subscribe, rate, and review us in your podcast distributor of choice. If you want to get in contact with us you can follow us on T...

Who knew ghost stories could be true in a world where the undead are regular occurrences? After a nice chat, the ghastly captain of this ghastly ship has taken the unreasonable action of attacking the gang. Let's see if they can handle themselves in the face of this undead menace and his buddies. As always, please remember to subscribe, rate, and review us in your podcast distributor of choice. If...

We're taking a quick break from our main story to bring you the continuing playtest adventures of the gang. We know the playtest is officially closed, but we've been having fun with it and we hope you all will as well. Come find out exactly why we hate giants so much. As always, please remember to subscribe, rate, and review us in your podcast distributor of choice. If you want to get in contact w...

The gifts are arranged, a ship has burned, and a couple people even died, but the time has finally come for a Shackles wedding! Join the gang as they bind themselves to Tidewater Rock for the foreseeable future, granting them one more feather in their cap and (hopefully) sending them one step closer to being recognized as true pirate of the Shackles. As always, please remember to subscribe, rate,...

The gang has come across a couple of ships just begging to be boarded and that's just what they'll do. Minor flaw in one though...it appears to be on fire. How will the gang deal with this conundrum? Let's find out. As always, please remember to subscribe, rate, and review us in your podcast distributor of choice. If you want to get in contact with us you can follow us on Twitter and Facebook, joi...

The time has come for the gang to take Tidewater Rock, one way or another. The Rock isn't quite as uninhabited as the group had been led to believe, however, and the current denizens of it have some interesting ideas concerning their well-being. Will the gang simple storm the Rock and take it for their own, or are there negotiations to be had?  As always, please remember to subscribe, rate, and re...

The gang is feeling pretty good right about now. Their recent pirate exploits have been going swimmingly, they escaped from being taken by a pirate hunter, and now they've put in at a giant port where they find themselves with a whole bunch of cash in their pockets. This city holds a secret, however, and one that could prove significant for the gang's future. As always, please remember to subscrib...

Fishing villages beware, there's a new force in the Fever Sea out to take all of your carefully curated magic items. No random villager or pack of dogs are going to get in the way of the gang as they search the high seas for plunder. Some of these villages are a bit more well-protected than others, though, so let's see how they gang fares this time around. As always, please remember to subscribe,...

The gang's done it now. They've gone and angered the big boss of the Aspis Consortium in Bloodcove and are currently in deeper waters than they maybe intended. Will they bravely retreat? Will they stay and fight like cowards? Maybe a bit of both? Let's find out! As always, please remember to subscribe, rate, and review us in your podcast distributor of choice. If you want to get in contact with us...

The Masked Shield is up to some hijinks in this week's episode, between a conversation with the Masked Brotherhood to some espionage amidst Bllodcove's pirate community, he's got his hands full. Let's see how much he can actually get away with. As always, please remember to subscribe, rate, and review us in your podcast distributor of choice. If you want to get in contact with us you can follow us...

Skram has discovered an interesting piece of street art that bears further investigation, but first, Manny's gun is getting a very special cleaning. It's time to take a trip down memory lane with Sandara and Manny before investigating yet another zombie-making octopus monster.  As always, please remember to subscribe, rate, and review us in your podcast distributor of choice. If you want to get in...

The gang continues their pirate-y exploits and have captured not one, but two ships! Not only that, but the time has come for the gang to finally make port for the first time since they truly became pirates. Bloodcove ahead! As always, please remember to subscribe, rate, and review us in your podcast distributor of choice. If you want to get in contact with us you can follow us on Twitter and Face...

So, we've got a sinking ship, a box that we can't get wet, and we're surrounded by a bunch of angry fish people. Sounds about right. Let's see how the gang manages to get out of this one without dooming half the Fever Sea to the briny deep. We apologize in advance for the sound quality in this one. We were having some issues with our equipment this week, but we'll get it sorted before the next epi...

Level 5 is here at last! The gang made it through the series of unfortunate events at Rickety's Squibs and came out the other side with a ship they can call their own. Now that they've started their true pirate career in the Fever Sea, they're feeling a bit more powerful. Will that power be enough for what lies ahead, though? Let's find out, shall we? As always, please remember to subscribe, rate,...

This week we're back with another edition of our Sweet Side Action. This time around, Matt takes the guys through the third scenario in the Doomsday Dawn Pathfinder Playtest material. "Third scenario?" you may ask, "What happened to the second one?" Well I'll tell you. The audio quality was simply not up to snuff, so we decided to put that episode on the shelf for the time being and move on. We ap...

Our super eventful stay at Rickety Squibs has finally come to an end! The gang has their very own ship, all specced out and looking super fine and they are ready to start their journey to become the scourge of the Shackles. First, though, they have to get the feet wet, so to speak, by plying the Fever Sea shipping lanes for a bit before they can earn their place among the hierarchy in the Shackles...

Tensions amid Skram's past come to a cacophonous head as his new crew meets the old in a good old-fashioned standoff. It may be the whole gang against a lone hobgoblin, but something tells me he's got a few tricks up his sleeve and is tougher than he looks. No worries, we've got this...right? As always, please remember to subscribe, rate, and review us in your podcast distributor of choice. If you...

Well, the gang is going to be in search of a new officer now, but at least they can finally sleep at night without leaving one eye open. Life at Rickety Squibs is never simple, though, as a blast from Skram's past catches up with him this week in Episode 25 - Squibbing (Relation)Ships! As always, please remember to subscribe, rate, and review us in your podcast distributor of choice. If you want t...

We're back with our second edition of some Sweet Side Action. This time around the story continues as Matt runs (most of) the guys through the first scenario of the Pathfinder 2 Playtest, modified to fit into our Sweet Side Action format, of course. Come give us a listen as we give a (mostly) lighthearted real-time review of the playtest. As always, please remember to subscribe, rate, and review u...

And we thought this was supposed to be a safe place to get a ship outfitted! Not only is there a murder mystery afoot, but now we have giant, intelligent, mean snakes to deal with? What the hell, Rickety?!  A couple quick mentions before we get started on this one: We have a new player joining us today! Our friend Andrew decided to join the crew for a few weeks, so enjoy his time with the gang, I...

The time has come to make the ship their own. The gang has arrived at Rickety Squibs, a place that specializes in giving ships a makeover. Now they have over a week to wait around while the ship gets all made up. Surely this will be a nice, relaxing bit of shore leave for the gang after all they've gone through, right?  As always, please remember to subscribe, rate, and review us in your podcast d...

Welcome to our first installment of some Sweet Side Action! Due to some scheduling conflicts, we weren't able to get the full compliment of gamers to the table for this week's episode, so this week Matt is taking his turn at GMing the first in our series of side missions featuring an entirely new cast of characters played by Nick and Alex. Who can resist a little Sweet Side Action? Not you, surely...

We did it! We pulled off a successful mutiny and have taken control of the soon-to-be-renamed ship. On top of that, we leveled up! Level 4 brings some new goodies as well as a new playground for us in the form of the Fever Sea and the Shackles. Let's see what hijinks the group can get into now that they have free reign of the seas. As always, please remember to subscribe, rate, and review us in yo...

The time has come. The gang's time away from the ship has brought the tensions among the crew to a head and the mutiny has begun. I don't know if the group ever thought they were going to have to aggressively board their own ship, but here we are. Mister Plugg has joined the fray, and the battle for the Man's Promise heats up, it's episode 21 - Burying the Hatchet. As always, please remember to su...

There's no rest for the fallen, apparently. Having made it through the Grindy-lair mostly intact, the gang finds themselves surrounded by undead ghouls with a bone to pick with their newest ally. Help comes from a surprising place as the group steels themselves for what they assume is their final showdown aboard the Man's Promise in Episode 20 - His Mask Will Go On. As always, please remember to s...