Why We Roll

Wythe and Chris chat movies, music, revolutionary ideas with Rhodrick Magsino of Alewood Games, creator of the Mothership modules/hacks ARKYVR and OMENDROME, as well as much more! Check out more of Rhodrick's work: https://www.rhomagsino.com/ For more from Alewood Games: https://www.alewoodgames.com/ For more from Stillfleet Studio: https://www.stillfleet.com/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Join us as we become the first and the last! The honored and the scorned! The harlot and the holy one! That's right, we're delving into the esoteric contradictions with Tanya Floaker, creator The Thunder Perfect Mind: Occult Action Thriller (not the Nag Hammadi Library one). We get into exploring anarchism and the death cult that is late stage capitalism, the mystical dialectics of Gnostic thought, and how to bring it all into a thrilling, emotional TTRPG! So tune in, drop out of your garment of flesh, and enjoy. Check out ALL of Tanya's incredible games: https://floaker.itch.io/ For more on Tanya and her work: https://floaker.carrd.co/ For more about Stillfleet Studio: https://www.stillfleet.com/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Pull them belts tight one more time as we dive into our last foray into Orbital Blues Month. On this episode, Wythe chats with Wes Franks (of Carrion Comfort fame) about F-Infiniti, the stand-alone racing supplement for Orbital Blues! We also get updates about Wes' (very excellent) project, Come On In (see WWR episode 59, if you missed it!), talk about how community can help mitigate burn out, and what's coming around the bend next for Wes. Check out Wes' work: https://www.carrion-comfort.com/ Make sure to check out Orbital Blues Month on Backerkit: https://www.backerkit.com/c/collections/orbital-blues-month?ref=bk-discover-project-banner Back F-Inifniti today: https://www.backerkit.com/c/projects/plus-one-exp/formula-infiniti For more about Stillfleet Studio: www.stillfleet.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Howdy, space cowboy! Welcome back to Why We Roll, where we're continuing our Orbital Blues Month series with module designer, adventure writer, and the brains behind Vaulted Pyramid, Josh Domanski. We cover Josh's impressive catalog of zines for Mothership, Liminal Horror, and now for Orbital Blues from Soul Muppet Publishing with the upcoming zine, PARAMOUR. Tune in as we chat about writing agnostically, adventure as allegory, and... the Dragonriders of Pern by Anne McCaffery? Make sure to follow Orbital Blues Month on Backerkit! https://www.backerkit.com/c/collections/orbital-blues-month And check out PARAMOUR here! https://www.backerkit.com/call_to_action/b976cc10-3f2b-4c54-9207-9fdc6251e5b1/landing?ref=scoundrels For more about Stillfleet Studio and all of our genre-chainsawing games, head to www.stillfleet.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

On this episode we sit down with Arakauna Media's Federico Sohns to talk about their games Nibiru and Zephyr. Make sure to tune in as we discuss Nibiru's exploration of the bicameral mind through integrated mechanics, imagining economies beyond debt and stateless societies in Zephyr, Fede's inspiration and research, and much more! • Araukana Media Website:https://www.araukana.com/https://www.araukana.com/ • Araukana Media IG: @araukana_media • Araukana Media Blueksy: @araukana.bsky.social For more about Stillfleet Studio, visit www.stillfleet.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This is a bonus episode to keep your ears occupied while Wythe and I take a much needed winter break! This episode of Thunderquack's Perfect Ten is from October 7th, 2025—right at the beginning of our Danse Macabre KS campaign! Tune in as I (Chris) chat with our buddy and collaborator, Michael Cohen about one of my favorite video games: Fromsoftware's 2022 ARPG... ELDEN RING (and how it relates to TTRPGs, of course). From Perfect Ten: "On this episode we're joined by Christopher Pickett, cohost of Why We Roll and creator of Danse Macabre: Medieval Horror Roleplaying, to talk about their perfect ten video game, Elden Ring, as well as the launch of their Kickstarter campaign." For more Perfect Ten and other Thunderquack shows: https://thunderquack.com/ Check out Stillfleet Studio's games, including Danse Macabre at https://stillfleet.com/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

On this episode of WWR, we chat with higher ed specialist and designer of the S.A.N. (Simple and Narrative) game engine, Anthony Kurza. Join us as we discuss using TTRPGs to foster leadership and identity development, creating systems and adventures for students, teaching TTRPG design, and more! Make sure to check out Anthony's work: Website: kurzplaysgames.itch.io LinkedIn: Anthony Kurza To learn more about Stillfleet Studio and all of our games, head over to www.stillfleet.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Get your shopping lists written and your sh*t guns loaded, kids—we're taking a trip to the mall. On this episode of WWR, we're chatting about HYPERMALL: UNLIMITED VIOLENCE with creator and author, JD Clément! We get into late stage capitalism, visceral body horror in games, and tips for learning (and forgetting) graphic design on the fly. Finally, we answer the all-important question: just who is the mysterious Dr. Acula, and what does he want?! Hammer City Games (publisher): https://www.hammercitygames.com/ Get HYPERMALL: UNLIMITED VIOLENCE: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/hammercitygames/hypermall-unlimited-violence-physical-release Rat Bastard Games (JD) itch: https://rat-bastard-games.itch.io/ Late pledges are open for Danse Macabre: Medieval Horror Roleplaying!: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/wythe/danse-macabre-medieval-horror-roleplaying For more from Stillfleet: https://www.stillfleet.com/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

For our final week of funding Danse Macabre on Kickstarter, we present to you... THE BLOOD THIEVES—a DM actual play with the incredible Jenn de la Vega, Mike Rugnetta, and Bijan Stephen of Fun City! Can our Pilgrims uncover the mysteries behind Zehmet the Witch and the elusive anti-theriac? Listen to find out! • Danse Macabre on Kickstarter: stillfleet.com/danse • Jenn de la Vega (she/her) is a Filipina-American chef and author at Family Party Catering, based in Brooklyn. She is known for her Randwiches or “random sandwiches” in Brooklyn and is the creator of the gourmet hot dog menu at Wonderville. She has appeared on Guy’s Grocery Games: The Cheesy Special (Food Network) and Gastronauts (Dropout). Jenn serves on the Board of Directors for indie theater The Tank. She is also an ENNIE Award- and CRIT Award-nominated player on the Shadowrun podcast, Fun City. Her Instagrams are @randwiches and @familypartycatering. • Mike Rugnetta (he/him) is a writer, host, producer of digital series (videos, podcasts, &c), and the GM of Fun City. Mike is also a sound designer and audio engineer. In addition to Fun City, Mike’s current shows include Never Post, Reasonably Sound, Think Twice, and RIP Corp. You can also see Mike in Crash Course: World Mythology, Crash Course: Theater, and Idea Channel. • Bijan Stephen (he/him) is a writer and game designer. He plays T.K. & Remy on the actual-play podcast Fun City. Currently, Bijan is a writer at Compulsion Games and a music critic at The Nation. He was previously a contract writer at Valve Software, the host of the podcast Chameleon: Gallery of Lies, and the host and executive producer of the podcast Eclipsed from Campside Media. Before that he worked as a correspondent for VICE on HBO, as a magazine editor at The New Republic, and as a reporter at The Verge. Find him on Bluesky, Twitter, Twitch, Instagram, or his website. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

On this episode, Wythe sits down to gab with Lauren Bilanko, owner of Twenty Sided in Brooklyn, NY and creator of the Mystic Aether Reverie divination deck (available now!). The two chat about Twenty Sided, Lauren's Mystic Aether setting, and the intersections between divination and TTRPGs. Twenty Sided: https://twentysidedstore.com/ Grab a copy of Mystic Aether Reverie: https://twentysidedstore.com/products/mystic-aether-reverie-divination-deck-parlor-game?_pos=1&_sid=03b28f94f&_ss=r Make sure to back Danse Macabre, live on Kickstarter! https://stillfleet.com/danse/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

On this episode of WWR, we chat with Anthony Grasso and Alex Hitchen of The MAD Network about writing settings for BORG games, best practices for social media and kickstarter, and FOLD-Å-FREAK 2—LIVE on Kickstarter starting Tuesday, October 7th! Back FOLD-Å-FREAK 2 on Kickstarter: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/themadnetwork/fold-a-freak-2 The MAD Network: https://themad.network/ Back Danse Macabre: Medieval Horror Roleplaying, also on Kickstarter: https://www.stillfleet.com/danse Stillfleet Studio: https://www.stillfleet.com/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

On this episode of Why We Roll, we sit down (in the same room, no less!) to announce the upcoming Kickstarter campaign for Stillfleet Studio's latest game, DANSE MACABRE: Medieval Horror Roleplaying. We chat about changes, the development process, and all the fun, creepy events we've got planned to support the launch! Danse Macabre goes live on Kickstarter on Tuesday, October 7th! If you haven't already, follow the campaign before it goes live at https://stillfleet.com/danseks Check out our upcoming 7pm (EST) streaming AP events on October 5th, 12th, and 19th, as well as November 2nd over at https://www.twitch.tv/stillfleet NYC metro area friends! Make sure to purchase your tickets for our Sunday, October 26th live show at Stone Circle Theatre in Queens, featuring Jenn de la Vega, Bijan Stephens, and Mike Rugnetta of Fun City! https://stillfleet.com/danselive Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Friends, we have a special treat for you today! Our buds—and former WWR guests—Dungeons + Drama Nerds have just kicked off an exciting new season of actual play, delving into the super-future political sci fi game, Stillfleet, in a series titled Start the Steal . Today, we're sharing the very first episode of the series, 'Take Me Offworld, Hotboy!' Make sure to check out D+DN for more episodes, discussion of the game, and interview with the game's creator, our own Wythe Marschall. From D+DN: In the kick-off episode to our Stillfleet campaign, we meet a ragtag crew of voidminers working for the Worshipful Company of Stillfleeters. They’re tasked with a simple transport mission of utmost importance to democracy on a distant planet and, more importantly, the Co.’s business prospects there. There surely couldn’t be anything nefarious, underhanded, or skullduggerous involved…right? Dungeons and Drama Nerds is produced by Percival Hornak and Nicholas Orvis, and this episode was co-produced, mixed, and edited by Ben Ferber. Our core ensemble are Todd Brian Backus, Jovane Caamano, Anthony Sertel Dean, Christopher Diercksen, Ben Ferber, Kory Flores, Mieko Gavia, Tess Huth, Romana Isabella, Jon Jon Johnson, CJ Linton, C. “Meaks” Meaker, Leo Mock, Dex Phan, and Tristan B. Willis. Our game of Wythe Marschall’s Stillfleet features Christopher Diercksen as Geshra Veedle, Kory Flores as Peanut, Mieko Gavia as Kyrannis, Jon Jon Johnson as Private Taps, special guest Wythe Marschall as Cherric Shaddams, and Ben Ferber as the GM. Links: Dungeons + Drama Nerds: www.dungeonsanddramanerds.com Stillfleet Studio: www.stillfleet.com Stillfleet, the game: www.stillfleet.com/collections/stillfleet Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices