#A Game of One's Own

[maddyisabstract]

A Game of One's Own | Pitcrawler (ft. Zack FG)

The latest episodes of my solo/duet TTRPG podcast A Game of One's Own are now available wherever you listen to podcasts!

In this crossover with @realmspod, @zackfg and I play Pitcrawler, a fantastic duet game by @macguffinandco! Listen as Zack and I embark on a choose-your-own-adventure style quest...

Part I is available on the Realms feed here

Part II is available on the A Game of One's Own feed here

[merelymatt]

Here's where Audio Drama Sunday gets meta

A Game of One's Own is back! With the story of a Buffy-type character resisting her author trying to push her towards tragedy, vamp romance and melodrama. (Listen out for my guest appearance on an upcoming episode of A Game of One's Own!)

Extremely timely of Welcome to Night Vale to do a story about a marketplace for metaphysical concepts; it makes my next project way easier to pitch in certain circles ("you know the Night Vale episode Swap Meet? What if governments sent spies into Night Vale to check the City Council's not bargaining for anything they could weaponise against Desett Bluffs")

And new this week from me and Foggy Outline

I Need A Miracle reaches its season 1 finale. If you've been holding off listening: it's all there waiting for you now. If you haven't, I think it bears a second playthrough. I wrote all the episodes as standalone stories/character studies, but there are connections there to be found as well.

If you liked the series, tell someone else you think would like it too! Whether this stays as an experimental one-off thing, or expands into a multi-season collaboration with more writers and voices, now fully depends on people discovering it, sharing it, talking about it.

[chloesimaginationthings]

"They call it the MANGLE" - FNAF 2 phone guy

[all-my-ocs-are-evil]

[insert poetic title here]

fun fact: this did not start out as isat fanart

(rambling in tags)

[lizzybeeee]

When you spend 20 years attempting to bring down the child slavery, murdering, human trafficking exploitation ring that stole your childhood, murdered your friends, and killed countless innocents only to have them rebrand as 'Noble Freedom Fighters™' off-screen.

[egophiliac]

A guy who just wake up from a coma -> what did i miss?

Pomefiore was the last plot i follow before real life made me forget about our silly boys. How bad has the plot become now for our gang? Also who is that Gojo looking guy?

anon, I am so sorry and I mean this in the best way, but I do think episode 5 is the absolute funniest place to have stopped following Twst because shit starts escalating SO fast after that. episode 6 literally starts with a secret government shadow agency breaking down our doors and kidnapping students. zero to a million instantly.

and like...that's not even the zaniest thing so far? Ortho's hacked into the collective human unconscious. there's time travel (sort of). "Crowley might be Malleus' long-lost father" is a serious theory. if you'd told me any of this back pre-episode 6, I would have asked for the link to this unbelievable but highly intriguing fanfic.

also, episode 7 gave us (and then immediately took away 😔) the best character in the whole story:

[baejax-the-great]

[vbsvartalf]

A Sunday, for Audio Dramas, perchance?

It's been a while since I did an Audio Drama Sunday post, mostly because it's been a long time since I've been able to have an Audio Drama Sunday. Recently, Sundays have become my running days. Because my headphones aren't wraparounds, I have to wear a beanie or headband or something to keep them from bouncing out somewhere on miles 5 or 10 or whatever in between. However, because of the oppressive frontera heat recently, wearing anything on my head is a no go, so no headphones, no audio dramas, nothing but the sinister whisperings of my own subconscious thought bubbling and boiling to the surface to trouble and toil. I wore a beanie today and well, the run didn't go well. But I did get some audio drama so it's not a total loss (and it was 5 miles so it's not like it was nothing).

So, without further ado...

Hello from the Hallowoods - I'm on a HftHw relisten, well just starting over really, and I'm on episode 3: Books. It's fun to listen to all these little bits and pieces as individual stories before they start getting woven together into larger narratives. Quite rewarding!

A Game of One's Own - Maddy Searle dances on the line between TTRPG actual play and audio drama perfectly. They belong in both realms and there's not a lot of podcasts I think can actually do that. The first two episodes, Mountaintop Isolation, are very reminiscent of Until Dawn, with the same chance of death and dismemberment and horror. There's an equal amount of gameplay mechanics and roleplay that are both immersive and engaging. It momentarily helped me forget I was running up and down a hill in 90-degree weather at 9 in the morning.

Re:Dracula - Finally, finally, finally, I'm able to listen to this super popular series. Not sure why it took me so long to start, but I will blame so many audio dramas out there and so little time for me to actually listen to all the things I want. It's kind of like a TBR pile. You can never read all the books you want, you can never listen to all the audio drams you want. I listened to the bonus episode first, the "Vampire Hunter" interview and I have to say, I'm impressed with how immersive it is and how deep the worldbuilding is. Love it!

Totalus Jeffianus - a history podcast built on a huge in-joke from another history podcast. How the hell could that work? Well the history of the Jeffs of Rome is something people want, they've already had 10 episodes so far so that should tell you something. The first episode's audio is a bit janky and a bit quiet but I'm hoping that will improve as the episodes come out. Low quality audio at the start of a podcast is very nearly a history podcast must.

66B - This is an audio drama that makes my Bearchive brain go a bit crazy. It's a podcast almost no one has heard of in this "modern" era of podcasting (at least I never see it on recommendation lists), and the first three episodes are missing. I want, no no no, I NEED to know more about this podcast. The audio is a bit janky in places that makes me wince a bit and I have no idea who anyone is. Two girls, at least one is a witch (or mage), there's a landlady, and a demon who lives there but doesn't pay rent and is helpful(ish)? They live in a haunted flat that seems like a power nexus? It feels similar to shows like Saffron and Perri, Haunted House Flippers, and the Aletheian Society, maybe they were an unconscious inspiration? Who knows. Speaking of, if anyone, anyone knows where I can find the first three episodes, I would be in your debt, the Bearchives needs this show and it needs the first three episodes!

[im-still-watching-anime]

apollo’s confidence in court: oh my god i’m the worst lawyer ever my client is going to go to JAIL because i can’t even do my JOB

apollo’s confidence outside of court: i’m the only smart one here, i’m the most normal guy in the world and NO ONE is doing it like i am, investigations are EASY, klavier gavin wants me carnally

[mako-designated-driver]

Warning: Some dav criticism ahead

Why is Tevinter so shallow? It isn't just about the lack of slavery (that, whatever else it is, however it was handled before, has been a pillar of Tevinter identity and inevitably leaves a hole in the narrative by being pratically missing). Why does the magisterium, the caste system, the Antaam invasion outside of Minrathous and the Black Divine play no role at all in its storyline?

Why the atrocities of the Crows (buying children, for example?) never come up during their faction quests?

Why do we hear nothing about the political side of the mortalitasi, how they control Nevarra from the shadows?

Why do we never even hear about Kont-aar even though we are in Rivain? Why there is no counterpoint to the (metaphorically, by qunari standards, mindless and souless) Antaam? Why is the qun completely missing from the game and the qunari reduced to cannon fodder the player has to cut down?

Why are the questions about magic that permeate every previous game absent here, especially when veilguard being set in the north could have given us such a unique viewpoint?

And, more importantly:

Why am I supposed to believe that no dalish elves would worship the gods they have already been worshipping their whole lives? That they wouldn't follow out of naivety, out of misplaced hope for a better future, out of fear, seeking to placate them?

Why am I supposed to believe that the gods would not even try to seek the dalish, when we are told by the previous games about the dalish hunters of legend, about how they are a mighty force to be reckoned with when united? Why do they only show up at the Blood of Arlathan quest, to play damsel in distress?

Why am I supposed to believe that no elves from the alienages would want to join the gods, because of every reason mentioned above, or out of spite or disdain for an uncaring world?

And yes, I know everyone learned the gods were evil off-screen. Why was it off-screen?

Also, where are the agents of Fen'Harel? Where are the people that vanished by the end of Trespasser?

Obviously, you can't expand on all of this in a single game, but why is all of it absent?

Why is bioware so afraid to engage with the world they created?

[swamp-gremlin]

RoadBlasters Incident 1987

[maddyisabstract]

NEW EPISODES OF A GAME OF ONE'S OWN!

Members of the Snazzy Tapir Patreon get EARLY ACCESS to the latest episodes of A Game of One's Own - my solo/duet TTRPG podcast - RIGHT NOW!

Parts I and II of Pitcrawler with @zackfg are now available, ahead of public release next week.

Pitcrawler is a fantastic duet game by @macguffinandco, and is inspired by classic choose-your-own-adventure stories.

As this is a special crossover between A Game of One's Own and @realmspod, Part I will be released on the Realms feed on Mon 17 June, while Part II will go up on the AGOOO feed.

[merelymatt]

For too long, the world of indie roleplaying has been beset by ANIMAL CRIME.

It's time to clean up these indie roleplaying streets. And the only way to tackle ANIMAL CRIMINALS ... is with ANIMAL LAWYERS.

I'm making my Twitch streaming debut (😱) on 23 June with Actual Play UK, in a game of Maddy Searle's I'm Not Lion, a game where you play animals who think they're lawyers, and the more animal puns you use, the more convincing the judge and jury will find you!

I'm playing Crawl Newman, an ambitious snake prosecutor who's determined to make partner, whatever that means??

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

Enki S Ending: God Blocking Gambit

[cringefail-loser]

42 personal questions ask game

how many followers do you have?

when’s the last time you went on a date

how many posts have you made?

What type of shoes do you wear?

what colour are the walls of your room

where are you right now? (not exact location. ex: at a park)

would you consider yourself good at art?

who was your first kiss?

do you still sleep with stuffed animals?

what’s your favourite piece of clothing you own?

do you live in an urban, suburban, or rural area?

what’s your favourite store to shop at? (online or irl)

if you had to choose one POSITIVE word to describe yourself, what would it be?

do you collect anything?

what’s the last thing you ate?

if you go to therapy, do you like your therapist?

what’s one thing you want to buy, but don’t have the money or resources to get?

Who’s the first person you can think of?

how old were you when you found out santa wasn’t real?

If you could revive one tv show that has been cancelled, what show would it be?

do you consider yourself a part of any alternative subculture? if so, which one(s)?

who was your childhood favourite music artist?

CDs or record players?

Do you believe in any conspiracy theories?

would you get back together with an ex if given the opportunity?

favourite kid’s show character?

is the person you call your best friend actually your best friend?

when you’re sad, do you prefer to listen to music to match your mood, or listen to happy music?

what’s the last outfit you wore?

do you have any online friends?

least favourite clothing style that is currently popular

how often do you do your laundry?

do you prefer silver or gold jewelry?

what’s your book/movie/tv guilty pleasure?

if you could change your hair however you want, how would you change it?

do you paint your nails?

what’s an uncommon/specific /obscure topic you’re interested in?

what’s the name of your first pet/what would you name your first pet if you had one?

what’s one feature you would change on tumblr?

what’s the most interesting item you own?

would you rather go on a date at a museum or a concert?

what’s one regret you have?

[drenched-in-sunlight]

mom vs dad incantation class

(also no thought… just Marika with her little daughters)