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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...

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-...