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Continue reading →: Eli Barraza Talks Active Protagonists, Arnold Palmers, and Season 2 of “The Far Meridian”In June 2017, The Whisperforge, a collective of audio dramas spearheaded by the creators of ars PARADOXICA, debuted its new work, The Far Meridian. The audio drama centers on Peri (full name “Hesperia,” which she rarely uses), a lonesome woman in a whimsical world trying to find her brother. From its first…
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Continue reading →: “Character Creation Cast” Sweetly Breaks Down RPG Basics Through CharactersTabletop roleplaying games have been booming in podcasts, but there’s more to it than just actual play stories. There’s also a wealth of podcasts out there meant to help you run your own game and explore different platforms. Take, for instance, Character Creation Cast: Character Creation Cast is a discussion and interview…
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Continue reading →: Take A Vintage Urban Fantasy Trip to Actual Play “Serendipity City”Urban fantasy is a genre that’s been gaining popularity and more attention lately. The genre blends fantastical elements like magic and non-human races with an urban setting, more modern than the typical medieval, middle earth settings for classic fantasy. Usually, this takes on a very modern feeling, like the much-maligned Netflix…
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Continue reading →: This Week in Podcasts: 8/12/18 – 8/18/18This Week in Podcasts is a weekly roundup of mini-reviews of all of the podcasts I’ve listened to in a week. If you see any podcasts that you feel are missing from my list, there’s a good chance I haven’t listened to the show yet! You can see my current…
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Continue reading →: “20 Sided Stories”: A Hilarious, Lush Actual Play AnthologyActual play podcasts are undergoing a bit of a renaissance right now. Instead of the traditional format of just a few friends playing Dungeons and Dragons with minimal editing, the focus put on just the personalities and jokes of the hosts, more recent actual plays have made steps to flip…
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Continue reading →: “The Big Loop” Returns for Its Second Season with the Moving “Surfacing”One of 2017’s standout new audio dramas, The Big Loop is a sometimes sci-fi, sometimes magical realism anthology series told in monologues. After a between-seasons hiatus starting in early 2018, The Big Loop returns tomorrow (August 14th, 2018) with “Surfacing.” In true The Big Loop fashion, “Surfacing” is a gorgeous, moving piece of…
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Continue reading →: This Week in Podcasts: 8/5/18 – 8/11/18
This Week in Podcasts is a weekly roundup of mini-reviews of all of the podcasts I’ve listened to in a week. If you see any podcasts that you feel are missing from my list, there’s a good chance I haven’t listened to the show yet! You can see my current…
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Continue reading →: A-Rated Episodes from “This Week in Podcasts”
Each week, I give a letter grade to almost every podcast episode I listened to, organized by the date on which they were released. You can read my rating system here, but suffice it to say that giving a grade between an A- and an A+ is rare. This is…
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Continue reading →: This Week in Podcasts: 7/29/18 – 8/4/18
This Week in Podcasts is a weekly roundup of mini-reviews of all of the podcasts I’ve listened to in a week. If you see any podcasts that you feel are missing from my list, there’s a good chance I haven’t listened to the show yet! You can see my current…
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Continue reading →: Australian Podcast Network Launches with an Ear for Marginalized VoicesBased in Melbourne, podcast network Lipp Media has launched with a “collaborative partnership for on-demand, digital audio by women and members of the LGBT+ community.” Lipp Media’s launch includes five podcasts podcasts: The Gays Are Revolting, a weekly news show; Cher and Retweet, a fancast devoted to Cher’s twitter; The…
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