Dungeons + Drama Nerds
By Dungeons + Drama Nerds
Listen to a podcast, please open Podcast Republic app. Available on Google Play Store and Apple App Store.
Image by Dungeons + Drama Nerds
Category: Games
Open in Apple Podcasts
Open RSS feed
Open Website
Rate for this podcast
Subscribers: 0
Reviews: 0
Episodes: 179
Description
Dungeons + Drama Nerds is a podcast produced by Todd Brian Backus, Percy Hornak, and Nicholas Orvis, three dramaturgs interested in the intersection of theatre and tabletop role-playing games (TTRPGS). Episodes release weekly alternating between Actual Play and Commentary episodes investigating a certain TTRPG system. Season 2 will feature: Blades in the Dark, Bluebeard's Bride, Kids on Bikes, Oh Dang! Bigfoot Stole My Car With My Best Friend's Birthday Present Inside!, and Lancer. Season 1 featured: Dungeons & Dragons (Eps 1-13), Apocalypse World (Eps 14-33), and Paranoia (Eps 34-46).
| Episode | Date |
|---|---|
|
Building Castles in DIRT with Christina Tang
|
Jan 21, 2026 |
|
“Behaving Like a Cult Already”: Stillfleet Debrief
|
Dec 10, 2025 |
|
Donuts is Bread
|
Dec 03, 2025 |
|
“Not Just Anarchist Shitposting”: Leftist TTRPGs with PB Berge
|
Nov 19, 2025 |
|
So Long and Thanks for all the Piss
|
Nov 12, 2025 |
|
Any Other Lies We Wanna Go Over?
|
Nov 05, 2025 |
|
Whistling Is Not a Skill: Modes of Character Creation
|
Oct 22, 2025 |
|
They Will Find You and Kill You
|
Oct 15, 2025 |
|
Escheresque Nausea
|
Oct 08, 2025 |
|
Imagining Future Worlds Together: an Interview with Wythe Marschall
|
Sep 24, 2025 |
|
I'm a Skinfluencer
|
Sep 17, 2025 |
|
Take Me Offworld, Hotboy
|
Sep 10, 2025 |
|
Stillfleet Explainer
|
Sep 10, 2025 |
|
It Always Comes Back to Vibes: TTRPGs and Adaptation with Dominique Dickey
|
Apr 30, 2025 |
|
Watercolors and Whittling with Caro Asercion
|
Feb 19, 2025 |
|
Our Haunt Campaign Debrief
|
Dec 11, 2024 |
|
12:02
|
Dec 04, 2024 |
|
But It Should Be
|
Nov 27, 2024 |
|
You're My Number One Baby
|
Nov 13, 2024 |
|
An Engine for Participatory Dramaturgy, with Mike Sell
|
Nov 06, 2024 |
|
The Sinister Nine
|
Oct 30, 2024 |
|
Do You Believe in Magic?
|
Oct 16, 2024 |
|
All Plays Are Memory Plays: Collective Memory in Art, with Beka Bryer
|
Oct 09, 2024 |
|
The Logic of the Living
|
Oct 02, 2024 |
|
The Hermit
|
Sep 18, 2024 |
|
We Are the Living, Featuring Heather Kelley and Kaylee Rowena
|
Sep 11, 2024 |
|
Open Mic Night
|
Sep 04, 2024 |
|
Up Next on Channel 4
|
Aug 21, 2024 |
|
Idly Dreaming with Jay Dragon
|
Aug 14, 2024 |
|
Our Haunt Explainer
|
Aug 07, 2024 |
|
The Machismo in This House
|
Aug 07, 2024 |
|
Skitbash! - CyberPygmalion
|
Jun 26, 2024 |
|
Dark Time: Actual Plays as Art
|
May 29, 2024 |
|
Dark Time: Everyone in Barovia is Usually Sad, or, Location-Based Horror
|
Apr 24, 2024 |
|
Dark Time: Collaborative Worldbuilding in Theatre and TTRPGs
|
Mar 27, 2024 |
|
Next Time on D+DN
|
Feb 21, 2024 |
|
There’s Always Room For More Boyfriends: an ARC Debrief
|
Feb 14, 2024 |
|
Yok Edije
|
Feb 07, 2024 |
|
Doing vs Having: Rituals in ARC
|
Jan 31, 2024 |
|
Is Poison Wet?
|
Jan 24, 2024 |
|
Turtling is a Very Specific Process
|
Jan 17, 2024 |
|
Finesse in the Chaos: an Interview with the New York Neo-Futurists
|
Jan 10, 2024 |
|
Aura of Awkwardness
|
Jan 03, 2024 |
|
The Seaward Star
|
Dec 27, 2023 |
|
Doom Approaches
|
Dec 20, 2023 |
|
All-Female Hamlet: A Brindlewood Bay Debrief
|
May 03, 2023 |
|
Bowled Over By Death: Part 2
|
Apr 27, 2023 |
|
Bowled Over by Death: Part 1
|
Apr 05, 2023 |
|
Everything is Data: Magic Circles in Play and Performance
|
Mar 29, 2023 |
|
Amicable Autumnal Abbatoir: Part 4
|
Mar 22, 2023 |
|
Amicable Autumnal Abbatoir: Part 3
|
Mar 10, 2023 |
|
Brindlewood Bay and Aging as Performance
|
Mar 01, 2023 |
|
Amicable Autumnal Abattoir: Part 2
|
Feb 24, 2023 |
|
Amicable Autumnal Abattoir: Part 1
|
Feb 17, 2023 |
|
Jessica Fletcher is a Gay Icon: An Interview with Jason Cordova and Joel B. New
|
Feb 08, 2023 |
|
To Be, Or Not To Be Dead: Part 4
|
Feb 02, 2023 |
|
To Be, Or Not To Be Dead: Part 3
|
Jan 25, 2023 |
|
Spooky and Safe: Coziness and the Murder Mystery Genre
|
Jan 18, 2023 |
|
To Be, Or Not To Be Dead: Part 2
|
Jan 11, 2023 |
|
To Be, Or Not To Be Dead: Part 1
|
Jan 04, 2023 |
|
A Fried Fish Filleted: Part 2
|
Dec 22, 2022 |
|
It’s All About Community: An Interview with C. Meaks Meaker
|
Dec 14, 2022 |
|
A Fried Fish Filleted: Part 1
|
Dec 09, 2022 |
|
Brindlewood Bay, Population: Decreasing
|
Dec 01, 2022 |
|
A New Way to Relate
|
Nov 02, 2022 |
|
Patreon Teaser: Interview with Christopher Diercksen
|
Nov 01, 2022 |
|
Absolute Chicanery
|
Oct 26, 2022 |
|
The Make it Gay Ethos: An Interview with April Kit Walsh
|
Oct 12, 2022 |
|
Roll to be Turned On & Confused
|
Oct 05, 2022 |
|
Tongues Out, Swords Out: Queerness and Villainy
|
Sep 28, 2022 |
|
Immediately Kiss in a Dangerous Situation
|
Sep 21, 2022 |
|
Whatsapp Romeo, or, Setting-Agnostic Games and Stories
|
Sep 16, 2022 |
|
Thank You, Fellow Law Abiding Citizen
|
Sep 07, 2022 |
|
Very Fraught and Very Steamy: Queerness in Theater and Games
|
Aug 31, 2022 |
|
The F-Boy Island of Actual Play Podcasting
|
Aug 24, 2022 |
|
Patreon Teaser: Interview with Dex Phan
|
Aug 20, 2022 |
|
Powered By Lesbians
|
Aug 17, 2022 |
|
Patreon Teaser: Interview with Tess Huth
|
Jul 20, 2022 |
|
The Future of Play + Season 3 Announcement
|
Jun 15, 2022 |
|
My Girlfriend Senses Were Tingling
|
Jun 10, 2022 |
|
Truth Will Not Win Today
|
Jun 07, 2022 |
|
Bridgerton Could Never
|
May 26, 2022 |
|
S2E49: Put Your Goddamn Plays in Space, You Cowards!
|
May 18, 2022 |
|
S2E48: I Still Don’t Think I’ll Ever Like Her
|
May 11, 2022 |
|
S2E47: The Prince of Diagnostics
|
May 04, 2022 |
|
S2E46: No One Disrespects Mothers Around Me!
|
Apr 27, 2022 |
|
S2E45: Mac Rogers and the Art of Audio Drama
|
Apr 20, 2022 |
|
S2E44: Salvage Law is Meaningless when Violence is Applied
|
Apr 13, 2022 |
|
S2E43: BTM: Big Trans Mechs
|
Apr 06, 2022 |
|
S2E42: Nuance
|
Mar 30, 2022 |
|
S2E41: Meet the GM: Julia Doolittle
|
Mar 16, 2022 |
|
S2E40: You Wanna Be a Real Lancer?!
|
Mar 09, 2022 |
|
S2E39: All the Lights in the Sky are Lancers
|
Mar 03, 2022 |
|
S2E38: I Was Bigfoot
|
Feb 16, 2022 |
|
S2E37: Chekhov’s Cherry Coke
|
Feb 09, 2022 |
|
S2E36: What is Criminal and Bear but the Lasers and Feelings of Space?
|
Feb 02, 2022 |
|
S2E35: Oh Man, Preppy Brian!
|
Jan 26, 2022 |
|
S2E34: Bigfoot, Take the Wheel!
|
Jan 21, 2022 |
|
S2E33: Kids on Bikes 2: Return of Benny
|
Jan 19, 2022 |
|
S2E32: Fred Still Has a Knife
|
Jan 12, 2022 |
|
S2E31: Spect-actorship and TTRPGs: Augusto Boal and Theatre of the Oppressed
|
Jan 05, 2022 |
|
S2E30: Shiloh Could Never
|
Dec 22, 2021 |
|
S2E29: Queering Monsters
|
Dec 15, 2021 |
|
S2E28: The Most Badass 11-Year-Old
|
Dec 10, 2021 |
|
S2E27: The Mythmaking Power of Nostalgia
|
Dec 01, 2021 |
|
S2E26: Ghosts Cannot Eat French Fries
|
Nov 24, 2021 |
|
S2E25: Moving Towards Mindful Violence
|
Nov 17, 2021 |
|
S2E24: Is It a Fart Robot?
|
Nov 10, 2021 |
|
S2E23: Meet the GM: CJ Linton
|
Nov 03, 2021 |
|
S2E22: Nothing Bad Has Ever Happened Here Before
|
Oct 27, 2021 |
|
S2E21: Small Towns, Big Adventures
|
Oct 20, 2021 |
|
S2E20: They Shivered With Fear
|
Oct 13, 2021 |
|
S2E19: You Are Never Going To Be What He Wants
|
Oct 06, 2021 |
|
S2E18: I Want the Rainbow: an Interview with Strix Beltrán
|
Sep 29, 2021 |
|
S2E17: You Are Not Quite Your Best
|
Sep 22, 2021 |
|
S2E16: That‘s Not Going to Come Back to Haunt You
|
Sep 08, 2021 |
|
S2E15: Once Upon a Bluebeard‘s Bride...
|
Sep 01, 2021 |
|
S2E14: An Interview with James D’Amato, or, If You’re Having Fun, That’s the Right Way to Do It
|
Aug 25, 2021 |
|
S2E13: Philomela and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day (a Blades In The Dark Wrap-Up)
|
Aug 18, 2021 |
|
S2E12: I'm Here To Make Bad Decisions
|
Aug 11, 2021 |
|
S2E11: A Firm Starting Place: Stock Characters and Archetypes
|
Aug 04, 2021 |
|
S2E10: Matters of the Heart are Miserable Affairs
|
Jul 28, 2021 |
|
S2E9: Narrative is the Jelly: The False Binary of Fiction and Crunch
|
Jul 21, 2021 |
|
S2E8: Labor Laws are So Last Century
|
Jul 14, 2021 |
|
S2E7: Checks, Balances, and Communication: The Role of the GM
|
Jul 07, 2021 |
|
S2E6: That’s How We Do It At the Moo Cow
|
Jun 30, 2021 |
|
S2E5: Meet the GM: Elliot Peterson
|
Jun 23, 2021 |
|
S2E4: Can I Roll a Vibe Check?
|
Jun 16, 2021 |
|
S2E3: An Accidental Ethics Violation (Mostly): Blades in the Dark Session 0, Part 2
|
Jun 09, 2021 |
|
S2E2: Cast of Characters: Blades in the Dark Session 0, Part 1
|
Jun 02, 2021 |
|
S2E1: Start Ticking Those Progress Clocks, Baby!
|
May 26, 2021 |
|
Episode 48: Season 2 Announcement - Blades in the Bride of the Kids on Bigfoot's Lancer
|
May 05, 2021 |
|
Episode 47: Moving Towards A Shared Dramaturgy; or, Season 1 Wrap Up and Mail Bag
|
Apr 07, 2021 |
|
Episode 46: Ultraviolet Clearance - GMing Paranoia
|
Mar 31, 2021 |
|
Episode 45: We Saved 73 JPEGs You Desperately Need (A Conclusion and Interview Episode)
|
Mar 24, 2021 |
|
Episode 44: Backstories For All Who Want Them
|
Mar 17, 2021 |
|
Episode 43: Gunpowder Bae
|
Mar 12, 2021 |
|
Episode 42: Paranoid Plays, or, Put Ghosts In Your Goddamn Play, You Cowards
|
Mar 03, 2021 |
|
Episode 41: It's Fun to Go Wheeeee Splash!
|
Feb 24, 2021 |
|
Episode 40: Virtual Theatre, Virtual Tabletops ft. James Ruth
|
Feb 17, 2021 |
|
Episode 39: Welcome to Red, Don't F!$& This Up.
|
Feb 10, 2021 |
|
Episode 38: PVP in Paranoia
|
Feb 03, 2021 |
|
Episode 37: 73 Is The Sex Number
|
Jan 27, 2021 |
|
Episode 36: Meet the Writer - Ben Ferber
|
Jan 20, 2021 |
|
Episode 35: Baby Shark THIS!
|
Jan 13, 2021 |
|
Episode 34: Welcome to Alpha Complex, Troubleshooter!
|
Jan 06, 2021 |
|
Episode 33: The Shared JonJon Universe
|
Dec 30, 2020 |
|
Episode 32: A Very Thorough Stabbing, or Absolute Zaddy
|
Dec 23, 2020 |
|
Episode 31: Indie Lou Who?
|
Dec 16, 2020 |
|
Episode 30: Want a Chainsaw?
|
Dec 09, 2020 |
|
Episode 29: Apocalyptic Theater
|
Dec 02, 2020 |
|
Episode 28: Flirts and Fights
|
Nov 25, 2020 |
|
Episode 27: Lineage of Craft - Maria Irene Fornes & PbtA
|
Nov 18, 2020 |
|
Episode 26: Tit for Tat
|
Nov 11, 2020 |
|
Episode 25: Safety Tools for Brave Spaces
|
Nov 04, 2020 |
|
Episode 24: Best Friend Status
|
Oct 28, 2020 |
|
Episode 23: Intimacy Choreography in TTRPGs ft. Leo Mock
|
Oct 21, 2020 |
|
Episode 22: Sandra Oh, No!
|
Oct 14, 2020 |
|
Episode 21: Storytelling Mechanics in Apocalypse World
|
Oct 07, 2020 |
|
Episode 20: Pleasure Squared
|
Sep 30, 2020 |
|
Episode 19: Meet the Writer - Jon Jon Johnson
|
Sep 23, 2020 |
|
Episode 18: Two Requests, No Eggs?
|
Sep 16, 2020 |
|
Episode 17: Devising TTRPGs feat. James Patefield
|
Sep 09, 2020 |
|
Episode 16: Apocalypse World Session 0, Part 2
|
Sep 02, 2020 |
|
Episode 15: Apocalypse World Session 0, Part 1
|
Aug 26, 2020 |
|
Episode 14: It's Time for the Apocalypse
|
Aug 19, 2020 |
|
Episode 13: Problem Play
|
Aug 12, 2020 |
|
Episode 12: DnD Campaign Wrap-Up
|
Aug 05, 2020 |
|
Episode 11: Dungeons and Dramatic Tension
|
Jul 29, 2020 |
|
Episode 10: Vulthoom!
|
Jul 22, 2020 |
|
Episode 9: Player as Performer and Audience
|
Jul 15, 2020 |
|
Episode 8: My Best Friend Did Science On Me!
|
Jul 08, 2020 |
|
Episode 7: Storytelling in Dungeons & Dragons
|
Jul 01, 2020 |
|
Episode 6: Fuck This Mouse
|
Jun 24, 2020 |
|
Episode 5: Meet the Cast - DnD 5e
|
Jun 17, 2020 |
|
Episode 4: Into the Woods
|
Jun 10, 2020 |
|
Episode 3: Meet the Playwright - Matt Minnicino
|
May 27, 2020 |
|
Episode 2: Sweet Hotness
|
May 16, 2020 |
|
Episode 1: Session Zero
|
May 16, 2020 |