Dungeons + Drama Nerds

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Episodes: 145

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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
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. Ella 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