Campaign Spotlight

This show explores the creativity and originality of home tabletop games. We interview GMs and players to hear about the unique worlds they build and the stories they tell.

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A Delver’s Guide to Third-Party Supplements: Building the Beast World with Selius [S4E6]

In this week’s episode, we chat with Selius from Heartleaf Games about building an economy where dungeon delving makes sense, the hazards of concentrating intellectual property in a single company, and the mechanics for noodle-bodied PC species. Initially, we planned to talk with Selius about the Delver’s Guide to Beast World sourcebook (which is extremely…

Onsite at Dragonflight [S4T8]

This week, we’re on location at the Dragonflight GameCon in Bellevue, WA! We hear about carefully engineered dice, the unsustainability of grimdark campaigns, and orange cats that are not burdened by an abundance of thought. Thanks to everyone who took the time to chat with us: At the beginning of the episide, we mention the…

Onsite at Furlandia (Part 2) [S4T7]

This week, we’re back on location at the Furlandia furry convention in Portland! We hear about the virtues of being your party’s straight man (in the comedy sense), PC-on-PC romance, and a party that fails to notice that you’re secretly Mothman. Thanks to Wulfryk, Theo, Dexter, Skia, Jacqueline, MIkiib, Faye, Chloe, and Liam for taking…

Viciously Destroying the Things You’re Anxious About: TTRPG Therapy with Wesley [S4E5]

In this week’s episode, we chat with Wesley about the enforcement of veils and lines, the virtues of stabbing birds, and the use of TTRPGs in therapy. (Wesley’s an actual literal therapist!) This ended up being a thoughtful conversation about people’s emotional needs when they’re playing TTRPGs, even outside the therapy context. We make a…

Six-Mile Hex Grids with Seventeen Locations: Exploration in OSR Games with Max [S4L1]

In this week’s episode, we chat with Max about Seattle-appropriate doula gifts, the TTRPG version of porn brain, and the concept of exploration in TTRPGs. This season, we’re experimenting with shorter conversations about how people play games. We first spoke with Max way back in Season 2, and we wanted to keep talking about OSR…

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