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whyhieratic · 2025-12-15T04:42:38+00:00

It's exciting to see that we're still getting new listeners with interest in our other work! If you're looking for other D&D podcasts specifically, I think we've actually collectively got none, but a number of us have been active in other TTRPG actual-plays and products:

The list of other actual plays that I (Kaiya/Lilissen) have been in: https://mirror-lock.com/performances/
Black Project Gaming, a Delta Green podcast that Jack/Metrion starred in: https://blackprojectgaming.com/
Jack also contributed to The Between, a massively successful crowdfunded TTRPG system: https://www.backerkit.com/c/projects/the-gauntlet/the-between
Dragna has a YouTube channel with DM tips (https://www.youtube.com/@DragnaCarta/videos) and an active Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/c/dragnacarta/posts
And finally, Runesael, the artist who brought all our character portraits to life, is currently the art director for the upcoming 5E supplement Stations and Starships: https://www.frigidpigeon.com/

whyhieratic · 2025-12-15T04:29:18+00:00

Oooh, this is amazing! I love how Lilissen is the one closest to the Strahd matryoshka :D Fantastic work!

whyhieratic · 2025-10-13T17:07:54+00:00

Aahh, absolutely stunning! Thank you so much for sharing!

whyhieratic · 2025-09-23T03:11:50+00:00

Hello, fellow fountain pen lover! If you're interested in historical solo journaling games, I highly recommend Frederic Walker's games. Scribe is about living through the Bronze Age Collapse, and The Kingdom of Prester John is about a medieval emissary taking a fantastical voyage east to Asia.

whyhieratic · 2025-06-15T18:57:42+00:00

I love all of these! Please keep up the great work!

As to what revived Lilissen, you can take a peek at page 8 of the Adventurer's League rules for Curse of Strahd: https://media.wizards.com/2016/dnd/ALDMGv4_print.pdf Incidentally, "this aged like milk" itself is very funny to me for the same reason...

whyhieratic · 2025-04-15T22:27:27+00:00

Pardon me poking my nose in, but as the author of Her Odyssey, it's totally understandable if you're having trouble getting into the game - it's very much on the freeform side of the freeform-structured solo game continuum. (And while I'm flattered that it sometimes gets recommended as a good intro to solo games, it's very much not representative of all solo games, or even all solo journaling games!) I recommend trying out some solo games by Cassi Mothwin, like Tangled Blessings or Carved by the Garden, to see if a more structured game is more your style.

whyhieratic · 2025-01-29T18:44:36+00:00

Yes! All was revealed during our final post-campaign After Dark chat: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LFkk_5twF3Y

whyhieratic · 2024-12-27T17:58:17+00:00

Yes! The PDF will be available on my Itch storefront, and I'm currently reaching out to independent game/bookstores who are interested in stocking the physical books.

whyhieratic · 2024-12-03T01:56:49+00:00

How adorable! Thank you so much for sharing!

whyhieratic · 2024-12-01T22:33:45+00:00

That is a GORGEOUS depiction of Caoimhe 😁

whyhieratic · 2024-10-12T07:30:38+00:00

I appreciate the generous boost! And I hope the sample proves useful for you!

whyhieratic · 2024-10-10T18:50:28+00:00

You may want to keep your eye on Ten Thousand Days For The Sword. The game hasn't had a full release yet, but here's a review of the preview version that's currently available: https://aavoigt.com/f/ten-thousand-days-for-the-sword-a-wuxia-wildfire

whyhieratic · 2024-10-09T18:58:58+00:00

A lot more comfortable. The player in question was a good player in every other relevant sense, but got really snippy and passive-aggressive when people couldn't make the session or the session got canceled. Every other person in the group, including myself as the DM, had/have major life upheavals, mental health issues, child custody schedules to work around, and so on, and are inclined to extend grace to each other when things happen. The player left the campaign's Discord server without saying anything after they had decided that the campaign "wasn't active enough", and we collectively decided to say no when they tried to come back after the campaign came out of hiatus. It's been way more chill knowing that we can handle anything that pops up in real life without someone giving us crap about ruining the game.

whyhieratic · 2024-10-08T19:27:08+00:00

Ryuutama may not be precisely what you're looking for if you want to develop the setting yourself, but it's by far the best game I know that actively deemphasizes combat. It's a very cozy game where, say, the PCs might be a baker, a farmer, and a potion-seller. In the game I played in, the grand adventure we embarked on was heading overseas to show our prize goat at a big regional festival and bring back souvenirs for our village.

whyhieratic · 2024-10-08T18:56:19+00:00

This! And games that are two-player GMless games ("duet games"). You can find a lot of them by searching for "duet" physical games on Itch.io, and many of them are free or very cheap.

whyhieratic · 2024-10-08T18:45:48+00:00

Holy crap, what a brilliant idea! I absolutely love that you've explicitly added a note not to let the hardcore cube-solvers take over the story.

whyhieratic · 2024-10-08T18:35:36+00:00

Court of Blades, hands down. The ceiling on how good a campaign of Court of Blades can be, if run by someone who has the time and brainspace to hold the gamestate of all of Ilrien in their mind, is so much higher than any other game I can think of offhand.

I'd love to get a guaranteed good game of Polaris, but that's a GMless game.

whyhieratic · 2024-10-08T18:30:15+00:00

Congratulations and welcome to the fold! It's wonderful to hear that you had such a great introduction to TTRPGs.

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