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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Demons That Are Actually Bards with Raynee [S5E2]

In this week’s episode, we’re joined by Raynee of Jet City Improv’s DNDProv! We talk about telling a story in ninety minutes, surprise D&D bachelor parties, and helping an owl throw a villain off a cliff. This was a really thoughtful conversation about storytelling, characters, and the intersection between improv and TTRPGs. Potential spoiler alert…

Experiential Concept Dining: DNGN+DRGN [S5F1]

In this week’s Flashlight, we’re trying out DNGN+DRGN! Along the way, we end up talking about long-closed Vancouver bars, walk-in coolers, and vampire grandmothers. This ends up being a fun system – a combination of rules-light and dice-heavy, which appeals to how we like to play games. We still don’t know how to pronounce “DNGN+DRGN”,…

Playing Whimsical and Playing Salty with Paul and Cailon [S5E1]

Welcome back to a brand new season of Campaign Spotlight! This week, we’re chatting with Paul from Alchemical Press and Cailon from the Nailon Realm about solving problems without getting your swords out, playing a character with values very different from your own, and building out a vibrant world of rodents and mustelids on OSR-style…

Game Mechanics as a Poem Structure: Self-paced TTRPGs with Satah [S4E9]

In this week’s episode, we chat with Satah about the distinction between games and writing exercises, the social expectations of GMing, and a table writing 150,000 words of fanfiction about their own campaign. We get into some of the themes that have been bubbling up through Campaign Spotlight since the beginning: the role of the…

Onsite at OrcaCon [S4T9]

This week, we’re on location at OrcaCon 2026! We hear about taste mechanics, Canadian orthography, and products for the sloppy player. Thanks to everyone who took the time to chat with us: [2:01] GameStorm is a very cool convention in Portland – and they offered listeners a promo code for discounted registration in this episode!…

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