An actual play podcast focused on two-player roleplaying experiences. Each week, host Jeff Stormer sits down with friends to play a two-player game, share some laughs, maybe a few tears, and have a really good time.
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Each week, Aaron Catano-Saez and Jeff Stormer take a listener-submitted prompt and spin it into an original fantasy character. Tweet us a character prompt: @AMFC_Podcast Email us a character prompt: [email protected]
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A yearly tradition about a yearly tradition.
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Taking place several decades after the events of Midst and Moonward, UNEND focuses on a supernatural ship and a remarkable crew set forth on an expedition to explore the highest heights, deepest depths, and furthest reaches of the known Cosmos. But their journey is fraught with peril as they discover truths and realities far stranger than any of them could ever imagine…
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Welcome to Yazeba’s Bed & Breakfast, an Actual Play Miniseries by Possum Creek Games and Jeff Stormer. Yazeba’s Bed & Breakfast is a slice-of-life tabletop RPG about a heartless witch, a peaceful house, and all the folks who have made their home inside. The game launches on Indiegogo on March 22nd 2022; you can find more information at tinyurl.com/yazebabnb.
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Let the gods quake at the sounds of your whispered plans. Let them lose sleep in their skyscrapers and citadels. Their end looms, a neon Fimbulwinter rising from those they pushed down. Ragnarok is coming, and it's you. Join Tracy Barnett, Alex Flanigan, Bee Zelda, and Jeff Stormer as they playtest the first season of Iron Edda Reforged! See the system develop from inception to final as the neighborhood of Puppet Strings rises up to take down Tyr!
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James D'Amato, the creator of One Shot and Author of The Ultimate RPG series for Adams Media invites you to join him in getting to know some of your favorite creative people by listening to them create. Every other week he invites a new guest to discuss their latest work and creative process before joining him in a character or worldbuilding exercise from the Ultimate RPG series. Gain insight and watch inspiration with The Ultimate RPG Podcast!
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Andrew tries his best to solve Alternate Reality Games. Marn tells him what he should have done instead.
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College of Whispers is a talkshow style podcast that reviews Tabletop Roleplaying Game (TTRPG) Actual Play (AP) productions critically in a spoiler lite format that will let you still check out the shows yourself and enjoy them!
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Against his better judgement, Keifer loves video games. Join him each episode as he interviews various guests about their most meaningful and memorable video game experiences to discover how and why games make an impact on their players. Along the way he also talks about the importance of video game preservation, scrutinizes the shortcomings of the video game industry, and argues for video games as an art form. Part of the Moonshot Network.
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An actual play podcast of Monster of the Week where a gang of weirdos are thrown into the horror-comedy arena hosted by Leland Hall. Join Andy, Anna, Matt, and Soren on an emotional journey through improvisation, mystery-solving, and tiny amounts of math. Come for the laughs, stay for the scares. Produced by Ronnie Palmieri and proud member of Where They May Radio. Join Matt, Andy, Anna, and Soren at the table, and let’s play Monster of the Week!
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Join Scottye Moore and Megan Danger on an adventure into the world of Fan Fiction! Each week, they discuss one of their favorite pieces of media and then we try our best to create some fan fiction about it! From Harry Potter to Supernatural, we'll cover it all in our attempt to make some fan art worth becoming a fan of!
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Third Person on Party of One with Jeff Stormer!
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1:55:03Join our Midst Cosmos creators Third Person as they sit down with "Party of One" host Jeff Stormer to discuss RPGs and play "See Issue X", a solo RPG about superheroes and the incredible absurdity of comic book continuity. Get ready for the epic showdown between Captain Cardboard, Mirror Man, and Humanity! What's Party of One? Party of One is an ac…
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455 - Wandering Blades with Daniel Kwan
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1:31:01Wandering Blades is a TTRPG inspired by Chinese wuxia media, Japanese animation, and action video games. Take on the roles of highly skilled martial artists who roam the lands seeking to redress wrongs, help the downtrodden, and free the innocent from oppression. I sit down with Daniel Kwan, designer of the game (and returning guest!), to discover …
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UNEND Season 2 premieres June 4th with new episodes releasing weekly on Wednesdays. Learn more at https://critrole.com/season2unend/ SEASON 2 DESCRIPTION: After their voyage of exploration goes awry, the crew of the Ship find themselves adrift in an unfamiliar realm where everything they know is called into question. With their beliefs, their bonds…
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Party of One is an improvised storytelling podcast about getting to know interesting people through the shared, universal experience of play. Guests featured include: Brennan Lee Mulligan Austin Walker Jeeyon Shim Jadzia Axelrod Kendo Jonathan Sims Pearlmania500 Rich Howard Mike Rugnetta Quinns Find new episodes, listening guides, and more, at part…
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202. The Sanguine Moon: Vampires in Fantasy (feat. Dillin Apelyan)
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1:02:16Episode Notes Welcome, Junior Wizards!This week, we are joined by the incredible Dillin Apelyan (mirror your pronouns) to finally decide what the heck vampires are in the world of All My Fantasy Children! Dare to make a pact with the Jilted Lover? Why not, childe of the stars? Do you fear the Sanguine Moon? Link to everything Dillin!https://superdi…
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454 - Catch Me If You Can with Mike Rugnetta
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1:15:29Mike is a longtime writer, host, producer and sound designer, who has been working in digital media since 2007. Currently, he hosts Never Post, a member-supported, employee-owned podcast about and for the internet, and GMs Fun City Ventures, a fully sound designed cyberpunk narrative play RPG podcast set in a post climate catastrophe New York City,…
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Episode 22 - Horror in Actual Play with Gannon Reedy!
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1:26:48EPISODE SUMMARY James is joined by Gannon Reedy in a discussion about time constraints in actual play, especially when it comes to combat. They also talk about visualizing actual play as the GM, how Gutter became a horror podcast and Gannon's approach to making horror actually scary. In the worldbuilding half of the episode, they create an inscruta…
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SPECIAL EPISODE: Galactic with Ify Nwadiwe, Nala J. Wu, Dusty Hill, and Catrina Dennis [Episode 1 - Worldbuilding]
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59:00INTRODUCING: A bonus two-part series (with a full group!) to coincide with the crowdfund campaign for Galactic and Going Rogue! I sat down with an incredible table of performers, including Ify Nwadiwe, Nala J. Wu, Dusty Hill, and Catrina Dennis to weave a story of rebellion and relationships in space. In part one, we make our characters and build o…
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453 - Orbital Blues with Austin Walker
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1:40:14Austin is the game master for Friends at the Table, an actual play podcast about critical worldbuilding, smart characterization, and fun interaction between good friends. He's also the designer of Realis, a science fantasy RPG powered by sentences published by Possible Worlds Games. We sat down to play Orbital Blues, a lo-fi space western roleplayi…
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Weird Kids X Third Person Crossover!
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1:52:48Ashley Johnson and Taliesin Jaffe welcome the creators of the Midst Cosmos and fellow weirdos Matt Roen, Sara Wile, and Xen to their Weird Kids table! From role-playing games to nostalgic artifacts to neat gadgets to just a shared love of scents, this motley crew of magnificent misfits has plenty of delightfully strange topics to show-and-tell. Use…
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Between the Skies is a cosmic fantasy game of travel and exploration across endless worlds, packed with procedures, tables, and inspiration for hundreds of weird, wonderful adventures through the cosmos. I sat down with the game's author, Huffa, to explore what makes the game so special (through the eyes of professional wrestling heel turned cosmic…
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Episode 21 - Collaboration and The Rise of PDFs With Aram Vartian!
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1:29:47EPISODE SUMMARY James is joined by Aram Vartian in a discussion about setting professional standards for yourself, the future of TTRPG publishing, the power of collaboration and how it has influenced his work. They also talked about Aram's upcoming projects including Dragon Age: In Darkness Eternal. In the worldbuilding half of the episode, James a…
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451 - See Issue X with Third Person
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1:53:33Third Person (Matt, Sara, and Xen) are the trio of writers/performers behind Midst, one of my actual favorite audio fiction shows of all time. I love Midst so much in fact, that we decided to turn Party of One into... Party of Three for an episode to get to share a table with them. We sat down to play See Issue X, a solo RPG about superheroes and t…
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450 - You Know Me Still with Clickclacksnac
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1:29:34Serenity is a cosplayer and TTRPG performer, who DMs the award-nominated AP series Tragedy of Theolosian, as well as Mass Effect: Mirage on FeyWildNOut. We both wanted to get deep in our feelings, so we dove into a game of You Know Me Still, and discovered the deeply toxic relationship between two warring fantasy spies, and the massive courts they …
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Episode 20 - Preservation and Studying Actual Play with Dr. Emily Friedman!
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1:55:47EPISODE SUMMARY James is joined by Dr. Emily Friedman in a discussion about the unique challenges of studying actual play, "the ambitious middle," the overreliance on digitization as preservation, as well as the responsibility of reviewing actual play and its obstacles. In the worldbuilding half of the episode, James and Dr. Friedman create a punk …
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449 - It Takes Two to Tango with Mark Vertlib
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1:33:31It Takes Two to Tango is a 2-player, rules-lite, GM-less tabletop RPG about rival spies sent on a mission together. Two rival spies. Two rival agencies. One major job. And unfortunately, one way through the door: Pretending to be a married couple. I sat down with the game's designer, Mark Vertlib, for a superheroic espionage-filled game to see how …
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Since we're taking a quick break to prepare for UNEND Season 2 (it's coming we promise!), we wanted to introduce you all to another otherwordly audio adventure, Desert Skies! On a lonely highway between life and the next life there's one last stop that we all have to make. Desert Skies Astral Plane Fuel and Service Station serves travelers as they …
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448 - The Wildsea with James Aaron Oh
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1:17:41James is an actor and creative director of Quests & Chaos, and an avid fan of Treasure Planet-style fantasy adventures. We sat down to play The Wildsea, an award-winning, post-fall fantasy tabletop roleplaying game set in a rampant ocean of verdant green... Can we survive the experience? THE WILDSEA: https://www.myth.works/collections/the-wildsea-h…
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Midst Messages : Comics from the Cosmos
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1:28:38In this special episode of Midst Messages, Third Person takes a deep dive into the Midst comic books with guests Will Kirkby, Aviv Or, and Kendra Wells. Check out our comics! Midst: Address Unknown - https://www.darkhorse.com/Comics/3013-738/Midst-Address-Unknown Midst: The Valorous Farmer - https://www.darkhorse.com/Comics/3013-739/Midst-The-Valor…
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Episode 19 - TTRPG Reviews and Corporate Horror with Sam Leigh!
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1:36:35EPISODE SUMMARY James is joined by Sam Leigh in a discussion about their inspirations, what tarot can bring to TTRPGs, how they approach reviewing games, the future of their videos, and more. In the worldbuilding half of the episode, James and Sam create a horror corporation that hides its true actions behind friendly little mascots. SHOW NOTES Sam…
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447 - Scene Thieves with Taylor Moore
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1:32:33Taylor, beyond being one of the funniest humans I know, has worked on some of my absolute favorite podcasts, including Worlds Beyond Number and Fun City. We sat down to play Scene Thieves by Possible World Games, telling the story of a band of 80s Cronenberg-esque shadowrunners stealing a top-secret super-drug the only way they can: By staging a No…
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[RE-RELEASE] A Land Once Magic with Andre Rivera (plus Bonus Interview: Elliot Davis)
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1:38:26BONUS EPISODE! In honor of the game crowdfunding, we're re-sharing our 2023 game of A Land Once Magic, genuinely one of my favorite games ever made. We paired it with a special interview with Elliot Davis, who is publishing the game's new physical edition, about why ALOM (and its designer, noted enemy of the show Viditya Voleti) are so great. BACK …
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201. The Walden: Can "The Ultimate Fantasy Character Creator" Create... A Boat?
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1:07:16Episode Notes Welcome, Junior Wizards!This week, we will be using Jeff Stormer, yes THE Jeff Stormer's book, The Ultimate Fantasy Character Creator: From Origin Story to Character Voice, Everything You Need to Develop Original Fantasy Characters to create... a boat? This episode was mixed and edited by Rob Abrazado Grab a copy of The Ultimate Fanta…
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SPECIAL EPISODE: Party of One Says Go Birds - 001 - The Dark Sentencer with Dillin Apelyan (LIVE)
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1:06:12SPECIAL EPISODE! As we take a week to rest and recover from a busy schedule, enjoy this special live recording--the first in our monthly live showcase at Unity Java in Philadelphia, PA. GO BIRDS! For our first ever installement of Party of One Says GO BIRDS, I sat down with my dear friend and certified Coheed & Cambria superfan Dillin Apelyan (ONE …
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Episode 18 - Solo TTRPGs and Abandoned Circuses with Kienna Shaw!
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1:22:19EPISODE SUMMARY James is joined by Kienna Shaw in a discussion about the draw of solo and duet TTRPGs for them and whether the inability to be present for solo games changes how they design their games. Kienna also discusses their strengths and weaknesses as a designer and the biggest difference working on videogames vs TTRPGs has been, in their ex…
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446 - The Magical Year of a Teenage Witch with Rene Legault
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1:31:10Rene is one of the founding members of DMs After Dark, and the host of Rene Plays Games, an actual play podcast focused on smaller published TTRPGs. (If you like the kinds of gameplay experiences we feature on this show, you'd really dig it.) We sat down to make something weird, joyful, and really special in a game of The Magical Year of a Teenage …
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Join Xen, Sara Wile, and Matt Roen (The creators of UNEND) as they discuss the mind boggling events of Season 1 with our official Midst Cosmos Lore Keeper, Jared Deiro! You'll learn all about their process for expanding the Midst Cosmos and their inspirations for creating UNEND. Several decades after the events of MIDST and Moonward, a supernatural…
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445 - Blister City with Malcolm Critcher
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1:28:18Malcolm is the Creative Director at BRINK Media, and co-creator of This Is Propaganda, a narrative nonfiction podcast that breaks down the hidden influence of propaganda in our modern lives, and how propaganda (or as it would come to be known, Public Relations) have shaped our entire culture today. We sat down to play Blister City, a game about the…
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