486 - In This World with Ellen Adair (The Housemaid, Take Me In To The Ballgame)

Caleb is one of my favorite designers AND podcasters (you have to check out Nightcrawler is My Boyfriend, it is a joy), and so I was thrilled when he reached out about the new game he's releasing, The House Edge. It is a mashup of Triangle Agency and FIST (two of my favorite RPGs), in which a squad of paranormal mercenary thieves team up to take down an otherworldly casino owner who wronged them... and end up infiltrating a twisted time loop facility as a result. It is EXTREMELY MY JAM. Special thanks to satah, Tom Harrison, Dillin Apelyan, and Viditya Voleti for being guest voices on the episode! THE HOUSE EDGE: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/hauntedtable/the-house-edge-paranormal-jailbreak-ttrpg HAUNTED TABLE GAMES: https://shop.hauntedtable.games/ NIGHTCRAWLER IS MY BOYFRIEND: https://open.spotify.com/show/033oLoh4yLZpT5G76kjFHc ALL MY FANTASY CHILDREN: https://moonshotpods.com/all-my-fantasy-children/ PARTY OF ONE DISCORD: https://discordapp.com/invite/SxpQKmK SUPPORT JEFF ON PATREON: https://www.patreon.com/jeffstormer FOLLOW JEFF ON TWITCH: https://www.twitch.tv/gmjeffstormer THEME SONG: Mega Ran feat. D&D Sluggers, “Infinite Lives,” RandomBeats LLC, www.megaran.com

Sasha is the creator of Spindlewheel, an interpretive tarot-like storytelling game where you weave together a story from card to card (and one of my favorite games of the past decade!). To wrap up our impromptu Spindlewheel trilogy on the show, we sat down with the special Spindlenoir deck to tell the story of a big-city dreamer cursed with deadly ambition in Adorned With Curses by Avalyn Ramsay. SPINDLEWHEEL: https://www.teacabbage.com/spindlewheel SPINDLENOIR: https://22to22.itch.io/spindlenoir ADORNED WITH CURSES: https://austin-ramsay.itch.io/adorned-with-curses SASHA RENEAU: https://bsky.app/profile/22to22.bsky.social ALL MY FANTASY CHILDREN: https://moonshotpods.com/all-my-fantasy-children/ PARTY OF ONE DISCORD: https://discordapp.com/invite/SxpQKmK SUPPORT JEFF ON PATREON: https://www.patreon.com/jeffstormer FOLLOW JEFF ON TWITCH: https://www.twitch.tv/gmjeffstormer THEME SONG: Mega Ran feat. D&D Sluggers, “Infinite Lives,” RandomBeats LLC, www.megaran.com

Vera Drew is a director, writer, editor, and actor, who won the 2024 Gotham Award for Breakthrough Director for her debut feature film The People's Joker, an unauthorized, autobiographical transgender coming of age story filtered through the language of Batman comics. (If you can't imagine why that sentence has me screaming, you don't know me very well.) Because Vera is a huge Magic: The Gathering Commander fan, we played a game of The Fallen using one of her favorite Commander decks (including some fan-made cards!) to tell the story of a paladin, their god, and the long road that follows their fall from grace. VERA DREW: https://veradrew.com/ THE PEOPLE'S JOKER: https://www.thepeoplesjoker.com/ THE FALLEN: https://spadeandspear.itch.io/the-fallen ALL MY FANTASY CHILDREN: https://moonshotpods.com/all-my-fantasy-children/ PARTY OF ONE DISCORD: https://discordapp.com/invite/SxpQKmK SUPPORT JEFF ON PATREON: https://www.patreon.com/jeffstormer FOLLOW JEFF ON TWITCH: https://www.twitch.tv/gmjeffstormer THEME SONG: Mega Ran feat. D&D Sluggers, “Infinite Lives,” RandomBeats LLC, www.megaran.com

Matt is the host and creator of Merely Roleplayers, a long-running actual play podcast focused on theatrical performers enjoying tabletop RPGs together. He's also the creator and writer of I Need A Miracle, an audio drama about a world purely through its people's prayers for miracles, some of which are granted in ways that cause problems for everyone. Season 1 was a NJ Web Fest selection and award finalist, and season 2 is currently crowdfunding. We sat down for a creative interview and discussion over a game of The Mountain, a Spindlewheel Microgame about a god, locked in the peak of a mountain, and its followers, scaling the mountain to free that god... for good or for ill. FOGGY OUTLINE: www.foggyoutline.com I NEED A MIRACLE: https://foggyoutline.com/ineedamiracle I NEED A MIRACLE SEASON 2 CROWDFUNDER: https://www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/miracle MERELY ROLEPLAYERS: https://foggyoutline.com/merelyroleplayers THE MOUNTAIN: https://22to22.itch.io/spindlewheel-microgames ALL MY FANTASY CHILDREN: https://moonshotpods.com/all-my-fantasy-children/ PARTY OF ONE DISCORD: https://discordapp.com/invite/SxpQKmK SUPPORT JEFF ON PATREON: https://www.patreon.com/jeffstormer FOLLOW JEFF ON TWITCH: https://www.twitch.tv/gmjeffstormer THEME SONG: Mega Ran feat. D&D Sluggers, “Infinite Lives,” RandomBeats LLC, www.megaran.com

To celebrate 500 episodes(!) of the show, I sat down with a bunch of my friends to play The Creation of Wonder by Eve Golden-Woods. We told the story of The Singularity Cycle, Phase I. The Blade of the Exarchs, a multimedia rock opera cinematic experience adapted from 20 years of TTRPG campaign notes. Thank you to my guests on this episode: Noah Houlihan, Jonaya Kemper, Hazel Amber Goswick, Alex Pearlman (Pearlmania500), Audrey Ladytabletop, KeganEXE, Marn Lastname, Caleb Zane Huett, Christine Prevas, Dr. Emily Friedman, Sophia Ricciardi, His Name Was Dusk, Kendrick Smith, AJ Ray AKA Hooshakid, Meghan Cross, Kienna Shaw, Jadzia Axelrod, Cate Osborn (Catieosaurus), Aaron Voigt, Dillin Apelyan, Stentor Danielson, Caro Asercion, Kevin Gallagher, Riley Hopkins, Lucas, Sarah Gailey, Matt Boothman, Elisabeth McCaughrean, Quinn Majeski, Grant, Mike Schubert, Patrick Kenny, Barclay Travis, Richard Kreutz-Landry, Steph Beck Fey, Dewayne Feenstra, and Adam Vass. THE CREATION OF WONDER: https://evelorien.itch.io/the-creation-of-wonder ALL MY FANTASY CHILDREN: https://moonshotpods.com/all-my-fantasy-children/ PARTY OF ONE DISCORD: https://discordapp.com/invite/SxpQKmK SUPPORT JEFF ON PATREON: https://www.patreon.com/jeffstormer FOLLOW JEFF ON TWITCH: https://www.twitch.tv/gmjeffstormer THEME SONG: Mega Ran feat. D&D Sluggers, “Infinite Lives,” RandomBeats LLC, www.megaran.com