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Amara, Garlic, Volli, and Chett decide that it might be best to spend this semester cooling their heels downriver. Unfortunately, they make this decision lat in the day and by the time they have packed, there is only one boat willing to start a trip at this time of day. They try to get aboard by promising to be extremely fun. Find And Donate to a Local Bail FundSupport Black Lives Matter Pre-Order The Ultimate Micro-RPG Book!Help OSN performers During the COVID Crisis Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Four students in The University's Arcanum get unlucky draws for their tuition interviews with the masters and have to reckon with the possibility of taking a semester off. The well-intentioned Volli (Patrick Rothfuss,) the bookish and distractable Garlich (Bee Zelda,) the prideful and stylish Amara (Satine Phoenix,) the irrepressibly rebellious Chett (Liz Anderson,) and the biggest horse you've ever seen. This game features an early playtest of an in-development Kingkiller Chronicle role-playing game. Find And Donate to a Local Bail FundSupport Black Lives Matter Pre-Order The Ultimate Micro-RPG Book!Help OSN performers During the COVID Crisis Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

James and Mel create a beautiful and loving family for their werewolf alter egos: Wayne and Garth. Learn about their parents, kids, and the invention of tear-away pants. Find And Donate to a Local Bail FundSupport Black Lives Matter Pre-Order The Ultimate Micro-RPG Book!Help OSN performers During the COVID Crisis Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

James is taking the week off, so here is the first episode of Dungeons & Da Asians from the Asians Represent team! Welcome to the Emerald Realms, a land on the brink of total war. Empress Zhouxia the Supreme sends untested political agent La Ning alongside Sky Soldier Dong Feng and Martial Artist W’Leed to the town to Jingde to investigate a mysterious cosmic phenomenon that threatens the legitimacy of her rule. If you have questions about this episode’s themes, suggestions, or anything else related to Asians Represent, or have sponsorship inquiries, get in touch with us on Twitter/Instagram @aznsrepresent, Facebook.com/aznsrepresent, or at [email protected]. BLACK LIVES MATTERFind And Donate to a Local Bail FundSupport Black Lives Matter ASIANS REPRESENT!OSN PageApple Podcasts TWITTERDaniel @danielhkwan, Ammar @ammarijaz, Steve @DeeEmSteve on Twitter! MUSICCloudy by KODOMOihttps://soundcloud.com/kodomoimusicCreative Commons — Attribution 3.0 Unported — CC BY 3.0 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Our goths and Visigoths have a big confrontation for the fate of the mall and the upcoming dance! Find And Donate to a Local Bail FundSupport Black Lives Matter Get a Physical Copy of Visigoths vs Mall GothsVisigoths VS Mall Goths Pre-Order The Ultimate Micro-RPG Book!Help OSN performers During the COVID Crisis Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Chaos in the Mall continues as the Mall Goths try to find their way into a Visigoth lingerie store. Meanwhile the Visigoths browse for movies. Get a Physical Copy of Visigoths vs Mall GothsVisigoths VS Mall Goths Pre-Order The Ultimate Micro-RPG Book!Help OSN performers During the COVID Crisis Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We join two groups of teens at the mall for a normal day of kidnapping and conquest. The mall goths discover that a rogue group of Visigoths have kidnapped their friend Raven in an attempt to fully annex the first floor. Meanwhile, two Visigoths contemplate their plans for the dance that will be help at the mall this evening. Visigoths VS Mall Goths Pre-Order The Ultimate Micro-RPG Book!Help OSN performers During the COVID Crisis Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

James is joined by Lucian Kahn to show off his game Visigoths VS Mall Goths with Bianca Zelda, Stephen Kropa, Alan Linic, and Adira Slattery. They spend this week establishing characters and their connections. Visigoths VS Mall Goths Pre-Order The Ultimate Micro-RPG Book!Help OSN performers During the COVID Crisis Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Our heroes refuse to join the Sage Hen in her flock which leaves only bloodshed to settle ownership of The Homestead. Without enough water to make the trip home they have no choice but to enlist every ounce of their bright blood to take what they came looking for. Grave dirt is coming for someone, and it's up to lady luck to decide who. CONTENT WARNINGBurying alive, disembowelment Back Skyjacks: Courier's Call on Kickstarter!Pre-Order The Ultimate Micro-RPG Book!Help OSN performers During the COVID Crisis Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Our heroes begin to confront The Sage Hen in attempt to claim the water in The Homestead. Jerimiah followed her when her name was Hennesy, he'll have to resist the temptation to join her flock. CONTENT WARNINGFormer cult victim Back Skyjacks: Courier's Call on Kickstarter!Pre-Order The Ultimate Micro-RPG Book!Help OSN performers During the COVID Crisis Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

To find the homestead our heroes must leave the casketland and cross through the land of The Flock. They must brave the ever-shifting tangle and whomever of The Sage Hen's cruel followers guards the twisting brambles within. CONTENT WARNINGSome wild body horror, claustrophobic situations, cult imagery Back Skyjacks: Courier's Call on Kickstarter!Pre-Order The Ultimate Micro-RPG Book!Help OSN performers During the COVID Crisis Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Ms. Hemlock, Jeremiah, Flex and Fold attend a late-night town meeting with Loam, a deathless desert hermit. Loam confronts the town of Doubletree with a startling truth that may also be an opportunity. CONTENT WARNINGDescriptions of claustrophobic situations, disfigurement, and social rejection. Back Skyjacks: Courier's Call on Kickstarter!Pre-Order The Ultimate Micro-RPG Book!Help OSN performers During the COVID Crisis Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The community of Double Tree was once a vibrant place surrounding a miraculous well in the middle of a parched desert. Ten years ago that well started to dry up and the community's luck went wit the water. Today Double Tree is a desolate place surrounded for miles by the cursed copses sealed away in black caskets. Four residents are about to be charged with a plan to save the community, but the only thanks they get might be a memorial of the death tree. CONTENT WARNINGInfant death, scarcity, violence and stigmatization based on physical appearance and disabilities, general "western" genre themes Get notified for the Skyjacks: Courier's Call season 1 Kickstarter!Pre-Order The Ultimate Micro-RPG Book!Help OSN performers During the COVID Crisis Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The word has been reduced to a vast and empty desert by titanic monsters controlled by The Ruling Party. The only thing that stands against them is a massive mechanical scorpion commanded by an intrepid captain and his crew of resistance fighters. They are searching for an elusive prize that will set them all free. Join the Captain My Captain Mailing List Pre-Order The Ultimate Micro-RPG Book! Help OSN performers During the COVID Crisis Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The world is ruled by a ruthless empire and a courageous captain leads her fearless crew towards a prize that she believes will be their salvation. Join the Captain My Captain Mailing List Help OSN performers During the COVID Crisis Get James' new book! Review The Ultimate RPG Gameplay Guide Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In the aftermath of a landslide, under imminent threat from the Chicago Bears' offensive line, loyalty between close friends, fathers and sons, and magician and stage secrets are tested. Will they manage to find common ground in time to protect themselves, or will a murderous sports team have their revenge? Check out Isolated by Max Beller on itch.ioGet James' new book!Review The Ultimate RPG Gameplay Guide Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

An outdoorsman father, his philosopher son, a friend with a criminal present, and a stage magician (all sports guys, by the way) enjoy a weekend retreat to an isolated cabin in the Rocky Mountains. Does this sound like the set up to a horror RPG? Because it's definitely the set up for a horror RPG. Check out Isolated by Max Beller on itch.ioGet James' new book!Review The Ultimate RPG Gameplay Guide Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The action team of sea creatures with ill-defined senses of self and their teammate who is also a bus tries to unravel the mysterious thing that has destroyed the community of their closest neighbor. How will doing that change them, and can they survive that change? Back Descent into Midnight!Get James' new book!Review The Ultimate RPG Gameplay Guide Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Taylor LaBresh joins James and his guests Mel D'Amato, Darcy Ross, and Cory O'Brien to lead them through a session of Descent into Midnight. It's an atmospheric speculative fiction RPG with wild worldbuilding and sci-fi marine biology. Everyone builds mind-boggling characters and their strange little world. Back Descent into Midnight! Learn more about Designing Games That Matter 2020! Get James' new book!Review The Ultimate RPG Gameplay Guide Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

It's pageant time but weird haunted sailors are knocking at the door and dragging the Electric Flames into a nautically themed nether realm, which is historically bad for tips. Can the girls rally in time to save the pageant and club? Buy Minimum RageGet James' new book!Review The Ultimate RPG Gameplay Guide Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The girls split up to get the club ready for the pageant, replace their salty liquor, and learn more about the mysterious book that Mother sent them. Can they figure everything out quickly enough to get ready for the show, or are things dead in the water?Get James' new book!Review The Ultimate RPG Gameplay Guide Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Electric Flames is a downtown institution with some of the best drag in the city. Who cares if it's technically illegal and partially patronized by monsters from a nether realm? When the girls who run the joint are tasked by Mother to care for a strange old leather bound book just before a huge pageant everything gets thrown in jeopardy. Get James' new book!Review The Ultimate RPG Gameplay Guide Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Hotankles, EdGar, Joshua, and Carol fight for their lives against Mallie/Malissa/Maledict and a mysterious plant monster deep beneath the earth in a thick fog of ruby mist. EdGar has reunited with his family but will their love be enough o overcome the forces of evil? Get James' new book!Review The Ultimate RPG Gameplay Guide Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Try Guys finally make their way into the ruby mist, looking for answers about Mallie, Malissa, and potentially Kitty Keith (an enormous talking magical cat who is somehow responsible for Hotankle's powers.) They find much more than what they were looking for. Get James' new book!Review The Ultimate RPG Gameplay Guide Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

After killing a truly inept Snowdonian Mayor the Guys are forced to defend themselves in a combat that was absolutely unplanned. Afterwards they are left with a difficult choice: attempt to hunt the crimson mist on their own, or talk to anyone other than Kilometers to find out what's going on. Get James' new book!Review The Ultimate RPG Gameplay Guide Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

James takes The Try Guys to Snowdonia, a land of danger and adventure haunted by the terrible crimson mist. It is up to EdGar, an Ivy League-educated barbarian searching for his lost family (Ned Fulmer); Hotankles, a teifling bard working on a song that will one day save the world (Zach Kornfeld); Joshua, a dragonborn sorcerer who loves to paint and travels the world for new pigments (Keith Habersberger); and Carol, a drow rogue femme fatale trying to keep her sordid past behind her while fighting for gay rights (Eugene Lee Yang), to track the mist to its source and protect the innocent Snowdonian villagers accused of witchcraft. Get James' new book!Review The Ultimate RPG Gameplay Guide Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Bianca concludes their magical girl adventure with Meghan, Ryan, and Victoria. Huge thanks to the donors to our World Builders page! Get James' new book!Review The Ultimate RPG Gameplay Guide Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A group of yo-yo obsessed teens battle to protect life energy and all of human progress! Donate to help us get a Kingkiller AP podcast! Get James' new book!Review The Ultimate RPG Gameplay Guide Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The battle against the surprise attack reaches its climax. We learn the Jarl is perhaps not super trustworthy and a teen hero cracks under the responsibility o his great power. Support Worldbuilders!Get James' new book!Review The Ultimate RPG Gameplay Guide Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Some people just want to go on a school field trip, but the dwarves want to wipe out humanity, which means Balbadon is going to ruin everything. Get James' new book!Review The Ultimate RPG Gameplay Guide Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

James sits down with Tracy, Liz, Mike, and Adira to create characters and a community for Iron Edda. Get James' new book!Review The Ultimate RPG Gameplay Guide Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Fae must confront the Crowan King alongside her friends to stop him from collecting people's personalities like so man shiny baubles. But what might this act of heroism cost her and her friends? Get James' new book!Review The Ultimate RPG Gameplay Guide Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

After making a few friends our heroine learns that The Underground is also home to many dangers. Get James' new book!Review The Ultimate RPG Gameplay Guide Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Growing up can be difficult even when you have three moms. There are so many things the world around you and the people who love you want you to be. Sometimes you need to figure out who you are for yourself... with the help of a talking tiger, a hero, a tree giant, and a horrible goose. Get James' new book!Review The Ultimate RPG Gameplay Guide Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Ellory races to find a magic ghost who will hopefully give her a way to avoid writing her paper. Even with the help of her familiar, Beans, and a stink lizard it will be a difficult task to find the ghost before he has already given out his A for the year. Get James' new book!Review The Ultimate RPG Gameplay Guide Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Ellory wraps up her first night of adventure, but to do it she'll have to confront the mystery person who publishes her favorite zines. Will this help her write her paper? What if she does something embarrassing? What if she thinks they are hot!? (they are) Will Ellory be able to buckle down on night two, or will she look for an easy way out? Get James' new book!Review The Ultimate RPG Gameplay Guide Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Eloree is a normal student at a liberal and esoteric arts college, and she has a potions paper to write at the end of her first term. Unfortunately, she hates potions and all of the necessary reference material is checked out at the library which means she'll have to get creative... Get James' new book!Review The Ultimate RPG Gameplay Guide Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

I didn't get to listen to this one before posting, but my editor assures me there is a fisting joke. CONTENT WARNING: Some unconscionably rude jokes in this one. Arms of the TideSystem MasteryA Dragon Walks into a BarThe Ultimate RPG Gameplay GuideSave the actual Amazon Rainforest! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The brave officers of P.I.S.S. get attacked in the line of duty. CONTENT WARNING: Some pretty rude jokes in this one. Arms of the TideSystem MasteryA Dragon Walks into a BarThe Ultimate RPG Gameplay GuideSave the actual Amazon Rainforest! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The folks from One Shot West fill in for James while he is on bereavement leave. They play Haven: City of Violence, a game you might be familiar with from System Mastery. Arms of the TideSystem MasteryA Dragon Walks into a BarThe Ultimate RPG Gameplay GuideSave the actual Amazon Rainforest! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A small kingdom with waning power has recently crowned a young queen who might have the ability to turn things around, but not without affecting those who hold her dear. Pre-order my new book! Non-Amazon link! Save the actual Amazon Rainforest! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The sound of wind rattling bones shares a tender moment with the entropomancer sent by The Order. Unrest in the city grows as the humans in the order and the witches fail to see the joke. CONTENT WARNING: Sex. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Order's inspector visits The Home of House Rapture for a dance. A routine diplomatic obligation initiates a change that will affect the city for decades. Also, that poor idiot made of chalk finally gets some help. CONTENT WARNING: Parts 2 and 3 of this series will have sexual content. Pre-order my new book! Non-Amazon link! Save the actual Amazon Rainforest! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A random intersection of shifting leylines has turned a once unimportant and mostly ignored city into nexus of magical power. The Order seeks to control this power and prevent it from enabling a civil revolution. The Witches, a contingent of untrained citizens seek to harness magical power to throw off their oppressors. The Lords and Ladies, the historic fey rules of the city want to conduct business as usual. In this tumult, we find three people who will soon be important to one another. CONTENT WARNING: Parts 2 and 3 of this series will have sexual content. Pre-order my new book! Non-Amazon link! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Lil Bingo confronts Remmington Smuck in a jail cell with only his prison-issued crossbow (a legal requirement in the state of Florida) to defend himself. Also, the episode ends kinda early so we have plenty of bloopers from 2018 and 2019 to fill out the rest of the hour. Coffee Detective Pre-order my new book! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Things heat up as the secrets of Berlin Jr.: The Chicago of Florida grow to be exponentially less believable. Coffee Detective Pre-order my new book! OSN Events at Gencon 2019 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Welcome to the gator infested town of Berlin Jr: The Chicago of Florida. Normally known for its gator rallies, meat sauces, and clock'o'bell. Unfortunately, now it may be known for another thing: MURDER. Coffee Detective Pre-order my new book! OSN Events at Gencon 2019 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

As we dig further into the past memories get painful. Because we lived it matters so much more that we live well for everyone who did not. Of course that doesn't make the right choice any clearer. CONTENT WARNING: Portrayal of people surviving the AIDS crisis. Heavy emotional content. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

James is joined by Senda Linaugh, Phil Vecchione, Rob Abrazado, and Catherine Ramen to try and choose between a well paid soul-sucking day job and a financially unstable dream job. Pre-order my new book! Support Asians Represent! in the Ennies OSN Events at Gencon 2019 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Ants Tackle the big questions like: The caste system, the nature of food, the origin of life, Riptide, and the trolley problem. Pre-order my new book! See Campaign Live 7/6! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices