Narrative Damage

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Welcome to the second part of The Haunting of Hollybrook!

The gang were hoping for a ghost story when they visited the abandoned Hollybrook Inn, but have found more than they bargained for. Just what is haunting the Inn, and can they survive it?

Cast:

Rhiannon Grist (Author of Home Sick) as Holly Hollybrook

Cailean Steed (Author of Home) as Sam Green

Anna Stephens (Author of The Godblind trilogy) as Frank 'Panda' McGee

Rafael Torrubia (Author of The Shipwright and The Shroudweaver) as Cassie Callisto

With Marco Rinaldi as The Host

Narrative Damage is the TTRPG show that asks authors to put down their pens, pick up the dice and tell stories together. On IS THIS YOUR FIRST TIME?, we get authors to try out a new TTRPG system every week.

Check out our other actual plays in a variety of systems on the channel now, along with interviews with creators from the TTRPG world. Visit our website to catch all our episodes.

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Welcome to the first episode of IS THIS YOUR FIRST TIME?, our new show where we get authors to try out a new TTRPG system every week.

On this first episode, we are playing Paizo's new horror game, 13 Omens!

Hollybrook Inn has been abandoned for the last 20 years after a grisly series of murders by the owner shut it down. Which makes it perfect fodder for the paranormal investigative crew, The Ghost Stormers, to investigate. But will they find out the truth - or die trying?

Cast:

Rhiannon Grist (Author of Home Sick) as Holly Hollybrook

Cailean Steed (Author of Home) as Sam Green

Anna Stephens (Author of The Godblind trilogy) as Frank 'Panda' McGee

Rafael Torrubia (Author of The Shipwright and The Shroudweaver) as Cassie Callisto

With Marco Rinaldi as The Host

Narrative Damage is the TTRPG show that asks authors to put down their pens, pick up the dice and tell stories together.

Check out our other actual plays in a variety of systems on the channel now, along with interviews with creators from the TTRPG world. Visit our website to catch all our episodes.

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Narrative Damage is levelling up! We have too many good games sitting on our shelves, so we decided to do something about it - we're bringing you a new show on the channel - IS THIS YOUR FIRST TIME? - where we get authors to try out new (to them) TTRPG systems every week!

We're kicking off THIS WEEK (29 October) with a playthrough of Paizo's new horror game 13 Omens - and all three episodes will drop by Saturday, so you can binge just in time for Halloween!

Narrative Damage is the TTRPG show that asks authors to put down their pens, pick up the dice and tell stories together.

Check out our other actual plays in a variety of systems on the channel now, along with interviews with creators from the TTRPG world. Visit our website to catch all our episodes.

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The jewellery heist from Charterhall University stirs old memories for the crew as Vey is interrogated about her father's disappearance and the gang look further into just what it is they have stolen...

Welcome to Doskvol, where the sun has been shattered and the city is shrouded in mist and soot. Giant lightning towers keep out the spirits of the dead as most of the people in the city struggle to makes ends meet.

Cast:

C.L. Clark (author of The Unbroken and Fortune's Wake) as Vey Basran

David Goodman (author of A Reluctant Spy and Solitary Agents) as Weaver Dalmore

Claire Schultz (author of Even Your Bones Would Do) as Mara Keel

Rafael Torrubia (author of The Shipwright and The Shroudweaver) as Nev Twist

With Marco Rinaldi as Game Master

00:00 Previously on City of Whispers

03:35 Opening Credits

05:38 Intro and recap

10:32 The story continues...

Narrative Damage is the TTRPG show that asks authors to put down their pens, pick up the dice and tell stories together.

Check out our other actual plays in a variety of systems on the channel now, along with interviews with creators from the TTRPG world. Visit our website to catch all our episodes.

This work is based on Blades in the Dark (found at http://www.bladesinthedark.com/), product of One Seven Design, developed and authored by John Harper, and licensed for our use under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/).

Music by Monument Studios.

Detailed maps of Doskvol used with permission of Tim Denee of Old Dog Games - buy them here: https://www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/307609/doskvol-street-maps-detailed-maps-for-blades-in-the-dark

Spinning map and cinder graphics by EricVulgaris (https://www.youtube.com/@EricVulgaris)

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Fresh from one (sort of) successful jewellery heist, The Haunts set course for another one - this time, in the presence of Doskvol Royalty... What could go wrong??

Welcome to Doskvol, where the sun has been shattered and the city is shrouded in mist and soot. Giant lightning towers keep out the spirits of the dead as most of the people in the city struggle to makes ends meet.

Cast:

C.L. Clark (author of The Unbroken and Fortune's Wake) as Vey Basran

David Goodman (author of A Reluctant Spy and Solitary Agents) as Weaver Dalmore

Claire Schultz (author of Even Your Bones Would Do) as Mara Keel

Rafael Torrubia (author of The Shipwright and The Shroudweaver) as Nev Twist

With Marco Rinaldi as Game Master

00:00 Previously on City of Whispers

03:24 Opening Credits

05:25 Intro and recap

11:17 The story continues...

Narrative Damage is the TTRPG show that asks authors to put down their pens, pick up the dice and tell stories together.

Check out our other actual plays in a variety of systems on the channel now, along with interviews with creators from the TTRPG world. Visit our website to catch all our episodes.

This work is based on Blades in the Dark (found at http://www.bladesinthedark.com/), product of One Seven Design, developed and authored by John Harper, and licensed for our use under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/).

Music by Monument Studios.

Detailed maps of Doskvol used with permission of Tim Denee of Old Dog Games - buy them here: https://www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/307609/doskvol-street-maps-detailed-maps-for-blades-in-the-dark

Spinning map and cinder graphics by EricVulgaris (https://www.youtube.com/@EricVulgaris)

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Our crew broke into the house of the mysterious Dimmer Sisters last time around and are now invited to a dinner they will never forget... can they escape with the necklace they came to steal - and their spirits intact?

Welcome to Doskvol, where the sun has been shattered and the city is shrouded in mist and soot. Giant lightning towers keep out the spirits of the dead as most of the people in the city struggle to makes ends meet.

Cast:C.L. Clark (author of The Unbroken and Fortune's Wake) as Vey Basran

David Goodman (author of A Reluctant Spy and Solitary Agents) as Weaver Dalmore

Claire Schultz (author of Even Your Bones Would Do) as Mara Keel

Rafael Torrubia (author of The Shipwright and The Shroudweaver) as Nev Twist

With Marco Rinaldi as Game Master

00:00 Previously on City of Whispers

02:20 Opening Credits

04:05 Intro and player intros

08:30 The story continues...

Narrative Damage is the TTRPG show that asks authors to put down their pens, pick up the dice and tell stories together.

Check out our other actual plays in a variety of systems on the channel now, along with interviews with creators from the TTRPG world. Visit our website to catch all our episodes.

This work is based on Blades in the Dark (found at http://www.bladesinthedark.com/), product of One Seven Design, developed and authored by John Harper, and licensed for our use under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/).

Music by Monument Studios.

Detailed maps of Doskvol used with permission of Tim Denee of Old Dog Games - buy them here: https://www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/307609/doskvol-street-maps-detailed-maps-for-blades-in-the-dark

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Welcome to Doskvol, where the sun has been shattered and the city is shrouded in mist and soot. Giant lightning towers keep out the spirits of the dead as most of the people in the city struggle to makes ends meet.

While the nobles of the Imperium claim to run the city, the real power lies with the many gangs of Doskvol, different factions vying to seize control. Newest among them is a small group calling themselves The Haunts; 4 desperate scoundrels who have decided to make their own bid for power...

Cast:

C.L. Clark (author of The Unbroken and Fortune's Wake) as Vey Basran

David Goodman (author of A Reluctant Spy and Solitary Agents) as Weaver Dalmore

Claire Schultz (author of Even Your Bones Would Do) as Mara Keel

Rafael Torrubia (author of The Shipwright and The Shroudweaver) as Nev Twist

With Marco Rinaldi as Game Master

Chapters:

00:00 Welcome to Doskvol

01:57 Opening Credits

03:43 Intro and player intros

06:35 The story begins...

Narrative Damage is the TTRPG show that asks authors to put down their pens, pick up the dice and tell stories together. Check out our other actual plays in a variety of systems on the channel now, along with interviews with creators from the TTRPG world.

This work is based on Blades in the Dark (found at http://www.bladesinthedark.com/), product of One Seven Design, developed and authored by John Harper, and licensed for our use under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/).

Music by Monument Studios.

Detailed maps of Doskvol used with permission of Tim Denee of Old Dog Games - buy them here

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In this special crossover episode with our sister podcast, Page One - The Writer's Podcast, we chat with the brilliant Jon Gracey!

Jon is a writer, actor, producer, games designer and much more! Host of the hugely popular Blood on the Clocktower live, Jon also designs board games and appears regularly on No Rolls Barred as well as other gaming channels playing both board games and roleplaying games. His debut novel will be set in the world of Blood on the Clocktower.

We loved chatting to Jon in the studio, hearing how he first got into sketch comedy before moving into the world of games. We talk about how to craft a good sketch show, hear why Blood on the Clocktower live has been such a huge success, and chat about why he wanted to write a novel set in that world. We also discuss the narrative power of both video games and TTRPGs, and how that storytelling differs from other mediums.

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Watch the Jon Parkin video that Jon talks about in the episode

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Tim Denee is a graphic designer and TTRPG creator who has created resources for games such as Blades in the Dark, as well as developing his own games such as Deathmatch Island, Odyssey Aquatica and, most recently, the Blades in the Dark supplement, Blades '68, which takes the world of Blades 100 years into the future into the swinging 60s.

We had great fun chatting with Tim, hearing about how he first got into TTRPGs and then how he began designing for them. We chat about what makes games like Blades so different from more traditional TTRPGs like D&D, and discuss why he wanted to write the Blades '68 supplement which is now available. Plus, we chat about what games he's been playing, and what he is looking forward to working on next.

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Buy Blades '68 now

Buy Tim's incredible maps of Doskvol

Narrative Damage is the TTRPG podcast that asks authors to put down their pens, pick up the dice and tell stories together. Watch or listen to our actual plays with authors as the players on our YouTube or listen on your favourite app!

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Emily C. Friedman teaches courses on British literature, book history, games, and playful media. Trained as a book historian, narratologist, and digital humanist, her work examines the history of cultural production outside of commercial mass media from the eighteenth century to today, from never-published manuscript fiction to analog games. Now one of the senior scholars and public intellectuals in the field of "Actual Play," a new media form where roleplaying games are performed for audiences, her research on the topic has appeared in multiple academic books and journals, The Los Angeles Review of Books, and the game media site Polygon. Her next book, The Actual History of Actual Play, is forthcoming from MIT Press (2028), and she is at work on a book on the comic and roleplaying game DIE for University of Michigan Press, a multiauthored critical companion to major Actual Play Dimension 20, and future work on microcelebrity and "nerd fame".

We loved speaking with Emily about her work, learning about the study of unpublished manuscripts, and how she first got into studying actual play. We talk about the amazing rise of this new form of entertainment (though it goes back further than you may think), hear about the teething difficulties of Critical Role, and much more!

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Pre-order Emily's book, The Actual History of Actual Play

Narrative Damage is the TTRPG podcast that asks authors to put down their pens, pick up the dice and tell stories together. Watch or listen to our actual plays with authors as the players on our YouTube or listen on your favourite app!

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