Menagerie Press: RPG Audio Plays

A band of adventurers delves into a sealed alabaster elven temple rumored to hold the Nine Demons of Ramlaat. They find torture chambers, cages, and a trapped sylph. Freeing her activates a strange silvery guardian.

Violence erupts, a companion is gravely injured and taken, and the party retreats with a prized mithril chain and a holy relic, forced to regroup and decide whether to return for their friend.

The party arrives at a snowy hill under a blood-red moon to investigate a raided supply caravan. They find mutilated bodies, shadowy tendrils, and tribal allies; a ritual led by the red-haired bandit leader "Moonchild" culminates at the summit. A chaotic battle ensues—summons, shadow attacks, and a dramatic confrontation as Moonchild seizes a beating heart before vanishing into the sky, leaving the party to recover supplies and loot the scene.

Get The Spinning Moon in the Formoria Adventure Anthology by Rune & Relic Press, on Kickstarter: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/runeandrelic/formoria-adventure-anthology

The Spinning Moon was written by CyberBro. Cast: Orson (Visira the summoner), Patrick (Ashla the fighter), Aazam (Ikit the ratfolk gunslinger), Steve (Izzy the cleric of Yamath), Garnett (Brother Kaarl the priest of Ord), Des (Fat Slasher the fetchling kineticist), William Murakami-Brundage (GM).

In this Shadowdark session the party ventures into a gnarled wood after loggers fell a pristine moonlit birch. They rescue a trapped woodcutter from sap-like oozes, confront strange glowing moths that extinguish fire, and decipher rune-marked stones in a misty glade.

The group ultimately recovers a beating birch "heart," uncovers a mithril short sword with moonlight power, and departs with a fast horse and uneasy village politics—facing hard choices about the forest's fate.

Get The Mournwood in the Formoria Adventure Anthology by Rune & Relic Press, on Kickstarter: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/runeandrelic/formoria-adventure-anthology

Mournwood was written by John Skelton. Cast: Orson (Yohei the gunslinger), Patrick (Ashla the fighter), Steve (Izzy the cleric of Tsathoggua), Garnett (Tacho the poacher), Des (Junie the lumberjill), William Murakami-Brundage (GM).

A new full-cast, grim fantasy audio drama with professional voice actors, produced by Menagerie Press in conjunction with Communication by Captivation. Featuring talent from Kristyna Zaharek (Houseflipper, Cold Storage), Austin Robertson (The Babylon Bee, TheOneRing.net), Kelsey Mata Foote (Everyday Tlingit Picture Dictionary), Cameron Merullo (Sirius A.I.), Ellie Follis, and John Rodgers.

Launching on Backerkit January 13: https://www.backerkit.com/call_to_action/d2f13dde-0e88-4949-9f1e-3dfed999e282/landing

A new full-cast, grim fantasy audio drama with professional voice actors, produced by Menagerie Press in conjunction with Communication by Captivation. Featuring talent from Kristyna Zaharek (Houseflipper, Cold Storage), Austin Robertson (The Babylon Bee, TheOneRing.net), Kelsey Mata Foote (Everyday Tlingit Picture Dictionary), Cameron Merullo (Sirius A.I.), Ellie Follis, and John Rodgers.

Launching on Backerkit January 13: https://www.backerkit.com/call_to_action/d2f13dde-0e88-4949-9f1e-3dfed999e282/landing

Our inaugural episode, an audio play based on an actual role-playing game adventure. This audio play is full-cast and designed using synthetic text-to-speech.

Text-to-speech, while not perfect, allows us to create an audio drama with unique voices for each character, akin to the radio plays that were popular worldwide in the 1940s and 1950s.

Consider this, at the least, a proof of concept that anyone can create an audio play, and one of the first full-cast RPG dramas.