Latest Episodes
Help Action Hero
This week we unpack the “help action”—both as a human skill and in tabletop RPGs—and use a recent road-trip disaster of AK's as a real-life example of how to win your ...
All Aboard the Derailroad
You finally found the thread. The document is open, the brain is online, the thought train has left the station. And then: a “got a sec?” DM. A mysterious knock at the...
Peptide Talk
Hey y’all, it’s AK, choosing to speak to you directly instead of doing the usual podcast-description thing where I pretend I’m not the one writing this. It started wit...
Demandatory
Why can we genuinely want to prep a game, level up a character, tackle a project, or keep up with a hobby—then feel that desire evaporate the second it becomes an obli...
Overstimulus Check
When the Big Light in AK’s new apartment becomes the Big Bad, AK and Matt become hypervigilantes trying to save their own brains from overstimulation. What do you do w...
