#318: Lara and Special guest Kayla Devorak share some of the major emotional moments and therapeutic epiphanies they’ve had while playing Kids on Brooms with the CASTT Gamers group on Twitch. https://www.twitch.tv/castt_gamers/
Transcript
Josué Cardona 0:12
Welcome to GT radio on the Geek Therapy network here Geek Therapy. We believe that the best way to understand each other and ourselves through the media we care about, my name is Josué Cardona. And I’m joined by link Keller.
Josué Cardona 0:23
Lara Taylor.
Josué Cardona 0:26
and special guests first time on. GT radio Kayla Devorak.
Josué Cardona 0:33
Devorak? Devorak? Devorak,
Kayla Devorak 0:36
Devorak
Josué Cardona 0:36
Devorak
Kayla Devorak 0:37
Yeah. Don’t say Devorak. That’s incorrect.
Josué Cardona 0:41
Thank you. Thank you for Yeah,
Lara Taylor 0:43
Josué is very specific, about pronouncing,
Kayla Devorak 0:45
thank you for asking
Josué Cardona 0:45
I want to make sure. I want to make sure it’s right. It’s important to me. Yeah. Yeah. Welcome. The reason why you’re here is because Lara, you know, we take turns picking a topic. And every week, you know, one of us goes, and we really bring up who’s gonna go? And I’ve been asking Lara, and she kept saying, like, oh, I don’t know, I don’t have an idea because I’ve been obsessed with something. And it gets, and the first week, okay, it’s fine. We can skip you. And then the second time, she said, I was like, Whoa, that’s your topic that I think that’s it. I think we
Lara Taylor 1:23
the first time was something else. But then it was my second time. And I was like, all that’s on my brain is buying this house. stuff at work. And this Friday night CASTT game we’ve been playing.
Josué Cardona 1:40
Please tell us more about that.
Lara Taylor 1:42
I got to explain everything?
Josué Cardona 1:45
Start with explaining CASTT, and then and then and then explain what’s happening on CASTT.
Lara Taylor 1:50
Here, Kayla, you want to explain?
Kayla Devorak 1:51
Hi, yeah, I can explain CASTT a CASTT it stands for community of applied spiritual, and therapeutic tabletop gamers. We are a Discord server of helping professionals who like to use tabletop role playing games, and board games in an applied manner. We also stream doing those things.
Lara Taylor 2:22
Yeah, more and more shows being added.
Kayla Devorak 2:25
We have Friday night casts, which is every Friday night at 9:30pm. Eastern on Twitch, I always forget the timezone transitions. And then we have every other Sunday is gays of our lives, which is an all queer cast playing queer games and talking about being queer. That’s every other Sunday. And then newly started is the tabletop transformations, which is the fourth Thursday of every month where Menachem and Tanya talk about how tabletop games can help us in our spiritual journeys. We have another show coming, but I can’t talk about that one yet. No.
Link Keller 3:11
For our listeners, you can check that out at Twitch tv slash CASTT.
Lara Taylor 3:17
With two Ts underscore gamers,
Kayla Devorak 3:20
yes, thank you.
Lara Taylor 3:21
Or on YouTube. were CASTT with two T’s gamers no underscore.
Kayla Devorak 3:30
That’s correct.
Lara Taylor 3:31
Yeah, yeah. And
Josué Cardona 3:32
that Discord server, how could we possibly find it or join? If we were so interested.
Kayla Devorak 3:41
We’re working on getting a submission form built out in our it’ll be in our link tree which you can access in our about page on Twitch.
Josué Cardona 3:53
Okay, we’ll put in the show notes. Yeah, okay. All right. So that’s CASTT. And then so so. So you’ve been playing a game.
Lara Taylor 4:03
We’ve been playing a game kids on brooms by if I had thing out
Kayla Devorak 4:10
Doug Levandowski.
Josué Cardona 4:13
On rolling for change. We’ve,
Lara Taylor 4:15
you’ve talked about kids on brooms and kids on bike.
Kayla Devorak 4:18
Yep, yep.
Josué Cardona 4:19
Yep. And they’ve played a campaign on there as well. And Menachem, which you mentioned before, has also been on rolling for change.
Lara Taylor 4:29
So kids on brooms, I started playing. The group that plays on Fridays had been playing games together since before I joined and then kids on brooms was the first game I played with them. Then we decided to do a bunch of other games and then stream and we streamed a bunch of other games and decided we really wanted to come back to the characters that we played in kids on brooms, and it’s been a very interesting, enlightening experience. I think it’s very interesting that we have a queer show. And yet most of like, what we’re going to talk about is like the queer journey in this relationship that our characters have. But this game is
Kayla Devorak 5:16
super gay
Lara Taylor 5:17
it is so gay. It’s so gay and so good. Um,
Link Keller 5:23
before you start describing your characters, could you give us a little quick synopsis of kids on brooms and how it sort of works and in the play style and everything?
Lara Taylor 5:37
Um, kids on brooms is like a rules light kind of game compared to d&d or any of that you do have dice. You have stats?
Link Keller 5:47
Do you use d 20 or D sixes?
Lara Taylor 5:50
a whole bunch of different die. Mm hmm.
Link Keller 5:54
I love that an excuse to use all of my clackies.
Lara Taylor 5:57
Exactly. So like you can have a D 20, in brawn and like, be able to beat things up, right? Or you can have a D 4 in brains and not make some good decisions. There’s each, like, we talked about playbooks. There’s tropes instead of classes or whatever. So in this one, it’s kids on broom, so it’s all I don’t want to say Harry Potter base, but Harry Potter magicians, that kind of stuff.
Link Keller 6:30
Hogwarts adjacent
Kayla Devorak 6:31
That’s the best way to explain it, Yeah,
Lara Taylor 6:32
yeah. Um, so you’ve got like, the firstborn caster. That’s my character. The haughty descendant that’s Kayla’s character. You’ve got unlikely ally. I’m trying to remember some of the Oh, teacher’s pet. There’s a whole bunch of good ones. Yeah. Yeah, a whole bunch of tropes, you answer questions based on that. There’s a lot of relationship building in the game. We asked each other relationship questions at the beginning of the game, each time we play. or not each time you play, each season, except sessions.
Kayla Devorak 7:20
During the character creation and world building. There are relationship questions that will ask you you roll a die, you roll the D 20. And whatever number you get is the question you ask. And you can you can ask a question about a character relationship that is negative, or positive, or you don’t know the person.
Lara Taylor 7:42
And then we built the world together in that we have a GM it is a GM game. Dustin is wonderful and created this world for us. But we get to have input too. And then we build in rumors that may be true or not help give him ideas on where to go and what we’re interested in in the world. This particular version, our first time playing, we were students at a high school in Yale, or not in Yale to in Salem, where we were deali...