Game Master Monday

This week we play I Want Your Bite by Rue Dickey! Lorenzo Underwood, a very rich vampire, invites four people to his home for the chance to win his eternal hand in marriage. THAT'S RIGHT IT'S THE BACHELOR WITH A SEXY VAMPIRE BABY!

This week's cast!

Jim Standhope as Fortune Fortuna (The Eccentric)

Kim as Violet Clemmens (The Sweetheart)

Melody as Guinevere Knottingdale (The Serene)

Sy as Cyron Flint (The Showstopper)

This week we run Play Ball! by Robin Caufield. The Good Clean Baseball High School Protagonists are FINALLY back in the playoffs! Assuming they can rally their team back together to face the defending champion Fort Pitt Bulls...

This week's cast!

Adam Brown as Mitch Salmon (Backup Turned Starter Pitcher)

Jenny Nordine as Sleve McDichael (Utility Outfielder)

Jacob Moore as Mark George (Captain Catcher)

Ricky Gray Jr as Donny George (Injured Outfielder)

To wrap up our Summer of Remasters we play Spelljammer! An original adventure for DND 5e! Three thieves sneak onto a ship with one mission: kidnap the captain. Hilarity ensues.

Starring:

Jenny Nordine as Bisho

Michael Childs as Draco Mouthstuff

Joel Ruud as Jozette Hinez

This week we play The Witch is Dead! 3 familiars go on an epic adventure to avenge the murder of their beloved witch and hopefully bring her back to life!

This week's cast:

Ari as Peter the Spider

Michael Childs as Corvis Christi the Crow

Jenny Nordine as Fluffy the Toad

This week we play SUMMER BREAK! A remastered classic episode! Join four kids as they build a tree fort, discuss the trouble of growing up, and beat up some cops.

Joey Hines as Knox

Chris Dunn as Rusty

Russell Christian as Gonzo

Manda Lyn as Molly

This week we play the system-agnostic story EGOPHAGOUS! Today's adventure will be played in the Call of Cthulhu system. 3 college students are sent into the woods to collect information on a new species of mushrooms. It's probably fine.

This week's cast:

Grant Nordine as Gaynor Hopkins

Pond Plays as Chantrelle Morel

Jeph as Michael Stalls

This week we play Roots & Flowers! A solarpunk hack of Lasers & Feelings! In this week's story, four villagers are asked to go on a days long journey in order to gather the needed supplies the town will need for the next year. Hijinks and good times ensue!

Jenny Nordine as Pryce Mizune (Creative Explorer 4)

Dusty as Bell Symphony (Creative Teacher 4)

Lex as Dolidh (Resourceful Engineer 2)

Zoup as Clefairy Totodile (Co-Operative Rebel 3)

This week we play Duste Hill's Lesbian Werewolf Crimefighters! 3 roommates (who happen to be lesbian werewolf crimefighters) are asked to solve a murder at the governor's mansion! Will they crack the case?

This week's players:

Jenny Nordine as Luna Tsuki

Evanne Offenbacker as Ms. Kae Stewart

Kaity Terry as Fern Sparacello

Vanessa Lopez Aziz as Zele Moods

This week we play Hopes & Dreams by Fari RPGs! A billionaire, a priest, an ace shooter, and a hamster team up to stop the building of a dividing wall in the city. And then it gets weirder.

This week's cast!

Grant Nordine as Ludwig F. King (The Suit)

Jack as John Osborne "Priest" (The Bruiser)

Nick Perron as Hamstead Grimsmoke (The Fox)

Andi as Hunter "Ace" Mire (The Good Eye)

This week we play the DND Module A DROP IN THE OCEAN by the God Trials! FEATURING custom homebrew classes by Adam Brown! A group of adventurers finds themselves captured by creatures of the deep! Whatever shall they do?! Something ludicrous I'm sure.

THIS WEEK'S CAST!

Jenna as Angelica Graves (Changeling Necromancer)

Leah as Kailana (Kalashtar Myths Druid)

Jeph as Kethric (Goliath Combat Medic Rogue)

Brian as Valiant (Lizardfolk Knight Fighter)

DM: Jenny Nordine

The Blue Dragon Quad has come to destroy Izod's home! Will our brave not adventurers make it? Only one way to find out in the THRILLING conclusion to Defeating the Dungeon!

Jenny Nordine as Datina Kooby (Halfling Ranger/Fighter)

Jacob Moore as Tynlywyrm (Dragonborn Sorcerer)

Evanne Offenbacker as Fernella Barenbadger (Gnome Rogue)

The gang goes to therapy!

Jenny Nordine as Dat Kooby (Halfing Fighter/Ranger)

Jacob Moore as Tynlywyrm (Dragonborn Sorcerer)

Evanne Offenbacker as Fernella Barrenbadger (Gnome Rogue)

Dat, Tyn, and Fernella begin traveling to Quox! Some stuff happens! Some people get met!

Jenny Nordine as Datina Kooby (Halfling Fighter/Ranger)

Evanne Offenbacker as Fernella Barenbadger (Gnome Rogue)

Jacob Moore as Tynlywrym (Dragonborn Sorcerer)

This week we are proudly sponsored by MythCraft! The debut RPG from The Homebrew Network and QuasiReal Publishing. Their Kickstarter is LIVE now and striving to reach their stretch goals!

In addition, we are happy to showcase our friends at Dysfunctional RPGs! A live stream show with something for everyone in the TTRPG space! Check them out on Twitch and YouTube!

WELCOME to our first-ever miniseries Defeating the Dungeon! An original DND Homebrew by Grant Nordine. Three adventurers, at their wit's end, decide to enroll in the self-help program "Defeating the Dungeon", a program promising life after the quest, understanding, and peace. Surely nothing bad will happen!

Jenny Nordine as Dat Kooby (Halfing Fighter/Ranger)

Evanne Offenbacker as Fernella Barenbadger (Gnome Rogue)

Jacob Moore as Tynlywrym (Dragonborn Sorcerer)

A trio of interviews from the Baum's hit show That Could Happen Live! Bravo Candy sits down with the author of the self-help book Defeating the Dungeon Dr. Izod Gillikin, the intrepid and controversial hero Playboy Watership, and in the FIRST EVER episode of the show an interview with the Mind Flayer destroyer herself Quorrolyn Braveheart!

This week we play Normal Earth Beings by Jasper Adams! A GMless game where some totally regular humans who are not aliens do normal things like go to work, socialize, and other human things. Like humans.

Our cast!

Grant Nordine as Twilce 

Lex as Beall

Matt as Flarz

Jasper as Shulu

This week we are proudly sponsored by MythCraft! The debut RPG from The Homebrew Network and QuasiReal Publishing. Their Kickstarter is LIVE now and striving to reach their stretch goals!

In addition, we are happy to showcase our friends at Dysfunctional RPGs! A live stream show with something for everyone in the TTRPG space! Check them out on Twitch and YouTube!

About 20 or so minutes into Slay the Stars episode 41 (Spoilers I guess), Char opens a mysterious book with four shrews on its cover. What happens next...is today's episode! Join the FULL cast of Slay the Stars on an epic adventure through SHREWMANJI! 

This week we play BRAINS AND BRAWN! The super simple TTRPG system by our friends at Fighter Guy Studios! In today's remastered classic episode, 3 friends discover they will die on the same day. HOWEVER, if they can defeat death in a game of Brains or Brawn, they will be allowed to return to their normal lives! 

Starring: 

Jenny Nordine as Pythia Delphino 

Jacob Moore as Coach Cam Carmichael 

Aaron Barry as Brad Bradley III

This week we play Noble Beauty in the Tower! Two knights climb, flirt, and yeet their way to the top of a tower to win the hand of a fair maiden!

This week's cast:

Evanne Offenbacker as Whiskey the Gray

Jenny Nordine as Dame Lia Bility 

This week, Grant DM's an original adventure in Dungeons and Dragons 5e! Two warlocks are called into a surprise meeting with their patron. What could possibly go wrong?!

This week's cast:

Jenny Nordine as Altheria Bloodmoon 

Kae as Valerian Borolt 

This week we debut the newest expansion to the Brains & Brawn system: Starships & Settlers! What do you get when you put an experienced pilot, a lost bodyguard, and an intergalactic politician all together on the same ship? Listen and find out!

This week's cast:

Jenny Nordine (datkooby) as Sky Salimit

Arianna (@adventuring_ari) as Simone

Jack )@DMofdiceandthem) as Finn Johnson

This week, we're playing GOD BLESS US, EVERYONE! A Christmas Carol-themed game created by our very own Grant and Jenny Nordine! The Cratchit children are told that their father will have to work on Christmas Day. Together, they devise a plan to sneak out that night and rid the village of Scrooge's selfishness one way or another!

THIS WEEK'S CAST

Ari as Peter Cratchit 

Michael Childs as Martha Cratchit

Elizabeth as Matthew Cratchit

This week we play YULETIDE KOMBAT FAMILY! A tabletop RPG where fighting games and the holidays collide! Who will reign victorious and save(?) the holidays??

This month's players:

GM: Jenny Nordine

Grant Nordine

Evanne Offenbacker

Jacob Moore

Aaron Barry

This week we play TOGETHER AMONG THE STARS! A collaborative intergalactic storytelling game you can play with a friend and a deck of cards! Special guest Joel Ruud joins Grant on a journey through space discovering new planets, encountering danger, and documenting feelings!  

This week we play EXECUTIVE DECISION! A real-time political strategy game by Greg Stolze! This particular scenario was written by Grant Nordine using the Executive Decision system. 

President Dick Richardson, his Chief of Staff Thomas Nolan "WayNo" Way, and Secretary of State Dr. Willie Fister are BACK to secure President Richardson's re-election against Gray Party candidate Jesus Mann. Will they reach the ever-elusive heights of the political world? Or will their antics cost them their jobs? 

TODAY'S CAST

Thomas "Percy" Louis as President Dick Richardson

Premal Bhatt as Thomas Nolan "WayNo" Way

Thomas Gironda as Dr. Willie Fister

This week, Grant celebrates reaching 300 followers on Twitter with a solo run-through of Swamp Troll Witches! A lone witch prepares for the night market by creating potions, gathering supplies, and mentally fortifying herself for the market. What challenges await her? Listen and find out!

Saturday the 14th an original scenario for Call of Cthulhu! Join 4 investigators as they are called to explore a teenage summer camp the day AFTER a series of brutal murders occur! Will they survive? Guess you'll never find out if you don't listen! This episode originally aired on Grant Rants on October 3rd, 2022.

Cast: 

Chris Dunn as Melvin Jamison

Kaity Terry as Sgt. Meredith LeRoy

Evanne Offenbacker as Sue Branson

Jenny Nordine as Detective Walker Ranger