Speculate

The group reflects on the worldbuilding and character choices they’ve made and discusses some potential names for the series. Names are hard. Brandon reveals the dream tarot they created. The group discusses the missing fifth member of the team, the person that assembled the team and mysteriously disappeared at the end of last season.

This series is a joint production with Greg’s Twitch channel, playing Girl by Moonlight by Andrew Gillis, forthcoming from Evil Hat Productions. Brandon O’Brien (@therisingtithes) GMs for the crew of Valerie Valdes (@valerievaldes), Iori Kusano (@iorikusano), Jeoi Gawain Lin (@thisismydasein), and our own Michael R. Underwood (@mikerunderwood).

If you like what you hear, please tune in soon for more actual play content, and please spread the word about the show! Become a subscriber to our Patreon at https://www.patreon.com/speculate to get even more content (including special episodes, access to behind-the-scenes videos like GM streams and session zero recordings, plus other bonus episodes!).You can watch our completed series “Splendour and Shadow” and “The Case of the Cindered Seal” at Youtube.com/ArvanEleron.

This episode was edited by the amazing Rudy Basso (find him at https://twitter.com/RudyBasso). As always, thanks for listening!

The group discusses avatars, perfect expressions of a character’s will that they can summon and have guide their actions in the dreaming. In a world that forbids and represses authenticity, the character’s real selves are revealed in the dreaming world. But the relationship between characters and their avatars are not always cut-and-dry.

This series is a joint production with Greg’s Twitch channel, playing Girl by Moonlight by Andrew Gillis, forthcoming from Evil Hat Productions. Brandon O’Brien (@therisingtithes) GMs for the crew of Valerie Valdes (@valerievaldes), Iori Kusano (@iorikusano), Jeoi Gawain Lin (@thisismydasein), and our own Michael R. Underwood (@mikerunderwood).

If you like what you hear, please tune in soon for more actual play content, and please spread the word about the show! Become a subscriber to our Patreon at https://www.patreon.com/speculate to get even more content (including special episodes, access to behind-the-scenes videos like GM streams and session zero recordings, plus other bonus episodes!).

You can watch our completed series “Splendour and Shadow” and “The Case of the Cindered Seal” at Youtube.com/ArvanEleron.

This episode was edited by the amazing Rudy Basso (find him at https://twitter.com/RudyBasso). As always, thanks for listening!

The team talks about their characters’ roles and playbooks as we continue our session zero work using the “In a Maze of Dreams” playset. We’ve got a weary caretaker, a time-traveling oracle, an unlikely hero, and more. Then the crew discusses some of the logistics and symbolics of dream travel in the series.

“Fractal Spire” is a joint production with Greg’s Twitch channel, playing Girl by Moonlight by Andrew Gillis, forthcoming from Evil Hat Publications. (@therisingtithes) GMs for the crew of Valerie Valdes (@valerievaldes), Iori Kusano (@iorikusano), Jeoi Gawain Lin (@thisismydasein), and our own Michael R. Underwood (@mikerunderwood).

If you like what you hear, please tune in soon for more actual play content, and please spread the word about the show! Become a subscriber to our Patreon at https://www.patreon.com/speculate to get even more content (including special episodes, access to behind-the-scenes videos like GM streams and session zero recordings, plus other bonus episodes!).

You can watch our completed series “Splendour and Shadow” and “The Case of the Cindered Seal” at Youtube.com/ArvanEleron.

This episode was edited by the amazing Rudy Basso (find him at https://twitter.com/RudyBasso). As always, thanks for listening!

Speculate! kicks off a new campaign with Session Zero of “Fractal Spire,” playing Girl by Moonlight: a multi-genre RPG of Magical Girls grappling with destiny: hopes thwarted, defended, redeemed, and betrayed.

The team talks about their process of deciding on the “In a Maze of Dreams” playset and begin the process of collaborative worldbuilding using the series playsheet provided by the game. The crew decides on a Conspiracy made up of a single dream that plagues the world and a history haunting the present, then go from there.

This series is a joint production with Greg’s Twitch channel, playing Girl by Moonlight by Andrew Gillis, forthcoming from Evil Hat Publications. (@therisingtithes) GMs for the crew of Valerie Valdes (@valerievaldes), Iori Kusano (@iorikusano), Jeoi Gawain Lin (@thisismydasein), and our own Michael R. Underwood (@mikerunderwood).

If you like what you hear, please tune in soon for more actual play content, and please spread the word about the show! Become a subscriber to our Patreon at https://www.patreon.com/speculate to get even more content (including special episodes, access to behind-the-scenes videos like GM streams and session zero recordings, plus other bonus episodes!).

You can watch our completed series “Splendour and Shadow” and “The Case of the Cindered Seal” at Youtube.com/ArvanEleron.

This episode was edited by the amazing Rudy Basso (find him at https://twitter.com/RudyBasso). As always, thanks for listening!