Todd, Nick, and Percy are joined by Ben Ferber to talk through the rules of Thirsty Sword Lesbians by April Kit Walsh, published by Evil Hat Productions and Gay Spaceship Games, and chat about what they’re most excited about in our upcoming game!

This week, Percy is joined by Tristan B. Willis and CJ Linton to talk about mecha stories and their connection to trans embodiment, as well as the kinds of stories they personally resonate with in terms of queerness and gender.

Our crew of lancers embarks on their first mission on a frigid planet outside the network of blink gates, but everything might not be quite as it seems...

This week, Percy sits down with Julia Doolittle to chat about theatre, TTRPGs, and the way those overlap for her, as well as Julia’s inspirations for our campaign of Lancer and, of course, Elliot the Dolphin.

Meet our crew of pilots in our session zero for Lancer as our players talk character concepts and how their squad came together.

Todd, Nick, and Percy introduce our campaign of Lancer by discussing the rules and talking about their favorite things about the system. Tune in next week to hear the beginning of our game and meet the cast!

Nick chats with the cast of our Oh Dang! Bigfoot Stole My Car With My Friend's Birthday Present Inside oneshot about the game - what surprised them, what they enjoyed, what it was like to play weird and wacky characters at the drop of a hat. Tune in next week for the start of our Lancer series! Dungeons and Drama Nerds is produced by Todd Brian Backus, Percival Hornak, and Nicholas Orvis, and is mixed and edited by Anthony Sertel Dean.   Our Oh Dang! Bigfoot Stole my Car with my Friend’s...

The crew revives Gerry, felled by a sleep dart, and takes off after Preppy Brian in order to save Bigfoot and make it to Percy’s birthday party!

Todd, Percy, and Nick chat about one-page TTRPGs - their style, their accessibility/approachability, their scrappiness, and the way they might correlate to ten-minute plays and 24-hour theatre festivals.

In the first half of our game of Oh Dang! Bigfoot Stole my Car with my Friend’s Birthday Present Inside, Jon Jon leads the cast through character creation, then promptly steals Hank McGruff’s Oldsmobile Cutlass while the gang heads to Percy’s birthday party. The gang encounters seagulls, Star Wars reenactors, and a veritable treasure trove of soft tacos.

Todd, Nick, and Percy are here with a bonus episode to introduce the next game we’re playing on the podcast - Oh Dang, Bigfoot Stole My Car With My Friend’s Birthday Present Inside by Paul Matijevic.

Nick chats with the cast of Kids on Bikes about the game - what surprised them, what they enjoyed, what it was like to play grubby little weirdos

In the finale of our Kids on Bikes campaign, Fred, Kodi, Hank, and George bully a man in his thirties, uncover more secrets in the BromCom HQ, and engage in some civic action.

Todd, Nick, and Percy dig into the work of theatre theorist and practitioner Augusto Boal and the techniques of theatre of the oppressed, looking at how we might apply those principles to tabletop role-playing games (and vice versa!).

The gang explores a secret lab and gets up close and personal with some of the gelatinous clouds they first discovered deep within the BromCom building. What other secrets lie in the old mines beneath Bromwell, PA?

Todd and Percy chat about two plays in the kids on bikes genre, including the way each play interacts with the conventions of that genre and each play‘s relation to queerness and monstrosity.

Micah leads the gang to the old town hall and coal museum, where they delve deep into one of the town‘s secrets.

This week, Todd, Percy, and Nick dig into the use of nostalgia in games and in performance, particularly musical theatre, and discuss its mythmaking potential and transformative power.

Hank, Kodi, Fred, and George continue their field trip at BromCom, partake in a disappointing cafeteria lunch, and learn more about Micah Lovelace and her newfound psychic powers.

Nick, Todd, and Percy chat about the use of violence in theatre and tabletop games - how it appears, what purposes it serves, and what it might tell us about both arts.

Our Kids on Bikes game kicks off with a middle school field trip to Bromwell, Pennsylvania‘s new silicon chip manufacturing plant, BromCom. Hank, Kodi, Fred, and George terrorize a scientist, investigate a mysterious green light, and find something surprising deep in the heart of BromCom‘s offices.

Nick sits down with CJ Linton, GM of our current Kids on Bikes game, to chat about dramaturgy, GMing, and game design, and how these three practices overlap for him.

Welcome to Bromwell, Pennsylvania! In this session zero, you‘ll learn about the town and meet the crew of dirty little weirdos in our upcoming game of Kids on Bikes!

Todd and Nick review the rules of the next game we‘re playing on the podcast: Kids on Bikes! They discuss the ins and outs of playing the game as well as specific mechanics they hope to see in our actual play campaign.

Nick chats with the cast of Bluebeard‘s Bride about the game - what surprised them, what they enjoyed, what was particularly scary. Tune in next week for the start of our Kids on Bikes series!