Dungeons + Drama Nerds

In this episode, we kick off our first actual play campaign, a game of 5th edition DnD! Tune in next week for an interview with our playwright and module creator, Matthew Minnicino!

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In this episode, Percy interviews Matt Minnicino, the creator of our adventure! They talk playwriting, death of the author, and the pass without trace spell. Tune in next week for the continuation of our 5th edition Dungeons and Dragons adventure, Of Mice and Monsters!

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We continue our 5th edition DnD adventure, Of Mice and Monsters - join our heroes as they meet perhaps the only helpful person in the entire town and venture into the mysterious woods!

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Meet the cast of our 5th edition DnD adventure and learn about the inspiration behind their characters.

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Tune in next week for the next installment of Of Mice and Monsters!

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Our heroes come up against their most formidable foe yet.

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Percy, Todd, and Nick dig into the way the mechanics of DnD affect our ability to tell stories in this medium. 

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Our adventure continues as our party faces the most dire threat yet!

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This week, Todd, Nick, and Percy discuss the role of the player as both performer and as the audience in tabletop role-playing games.

Works Referenced:

Lehmann, Niels, and Janek Szatkowski. “Theatrical Virtuality - Virtual Theatricality: Virtual Narrative, Autonomous Agents and Interactivity in a Dramaturgical Perspective.” In Virtual Applications: Applications with Virtual Inhabited 3D Worlds, 49–88. London: Springer-Verlag London...

The finale of our Dungeons and Dragons adventure! Will our heroes defeat Kosh? Will Bart be literally any help at all? What will happen to Secomber?

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This week, Percy, Nick, and Todd talk about dramatic structure! This episode contains some minor spoilers for Episode 10, so you might want to listen to the end of our Dungeons and Dragons adventure before you listen to this episode of commentary.

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This week, we debrief our campaign of 5th edition Dungeons and Dragons with our cast and playwright.

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Todd, Percy, and Nick have brought their hottest takes on plays about D&D and why it's so hard to stage Dungeons and Dragons well. 

Works Referenced:

Theatre and the Video Game: Beauty and the Beast by Katherine Lynne Whitlock PhD

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This week kicks off our Apocalypse World campaign with a brief explanation of the game's major mechanics and how they represent a departure from the D20 system used by games like Dungeons and Dragons. 

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We're kicking off Irremediably Home, our Apocalypse World campaign, with the first half of our Session 0. Meet our players and listen in as they work together to create the world and their characters!

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Tune into the second part of our session 0 for Apocalypse World and hear our characters make some history!

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This week we talk to special guest James Patefield about devised theatre best practices and what they have in common with the collaborative world building in Session 0 of our Apocalypse World game!

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Our Apocalypse World campaign kicks off with an introduction to our characters and a hearty breakfast. 

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The poem at the beginning of the episode is "The Last Toast" by Anna Akhmatova.

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Todd sits down with our Master of Ceremonies, Jon Jon Johnson, to talk theatre, tabletop games, and how he puts the two together.

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We delve further into our Apocalypse World adventure - AZ Honey squares up with Borug, Vector continues zir quest for eggs, Sydney makes a new friend, and Vance receives a prophecy.

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