ChimaeraCast | Dungeon World Actual Play

After failing many rolls and gaining plenty of XP dealing with technical issues, we're back up and running! We've successfully passed the GM role completely around our table, so we decided it was time to reflect. In the Dragon's Den, we discuss our previous Cycle of Dungeon World games, our plans for the future of ChimaeraCast, and come up with the new Chimaera uniform. Next Wednesday, we begin the Second Cycle with Series V!

Two hunters of Hargrave House begin their nightly investigations that lead to some disturbing discoveries, while Doc stays home to discover more about his own past and ailment.

The hunters of Hargrave House are beginning to put together clues to the strange mystery of St. James Place. What do all these numbers mean? Has this type of thing happened before? What is a Zoopraxiscope? Let's find out.

It’s that time again, where the gang gets back together and plays another system we are all excited about. This time around we are playing Jason Cordova’s The Between. I think this game is an absolute blast and I hope you have fun following our heroes through the strange streets of Victorian London. For Session 1 we get the characters set up, but in no time we are on our feet and hitting the ground running exploring a great mystery plaguing the city. Cheers!

This is the conclusion of our second Trophy Gold series with Jason Cordova! While you don’t need to have listened to our previous series, Hester’s Mill, to understand this one, I highly recommend you check it out.Lord Dion, Bruno, Zabatu, and Ezio have made their way into the Rime Palace and survived the life-or-death games being played there. But as they continue lower toward the deep towers of the upside-down, hanging palace and meet the upper echelons of the fae court, they soon learn that it's not just games that are deadly-serious in the Rime Palace, but every aspect of courtly life.For more information about Trophy, or to purchase this excellent system, check their website here.You can follow Jason on twitter, and check out The Gauntlet’s website and Patreon.Cloven Pine Games can be found here, where you can pick up more of their TTRPG work.The theme music for our Trophy games was made by Gabi Vanek who rules. You can find more of her work here.Finally, here are links to our merch, twitter and instagram.P.S. Series IX continues later this week!

This is part two of our second Trophy Gold series with Jason Cordova! While you don’t need to have listened to our previous series, Hester’s Mill, to understand this one, I highly recommend you check it out.Ezio, Zabatu, Sgt. Bruno Ilicik, and Lord Dion Devanos, along with their new companion Iditha are carried by the bone ship Ardken through the Gossamer Void to the Rime Palace. While the journey has been strange, their destination holds stranger mysteries still. But also some familiar faces…For more information about Trophy, or to purchase this excellent system, check their website here.You can follow Jason on twitter, and check out The Gauntlet’s website and Patreon.Cloven Pine Games can be found here, where you can pick up more of their TTRPG work.The theme music for our Trophy games was made by Gabi Vanek who rules. You can find more of her work here.Finally, here are links to our Patreon, merch, and twitter and instagram.

We continue our game of Trophy Gold with Jason Cordova! While you don’t need to have listened to that series to understand this one, I highly recommend you check it out.Ezio, Zabatu, Sgt. Bruno Ilicik, and Lord Dion Devanos are treasure-hunters searching for a bone ship called Ardken, a legendary ship that supposedly will be able to take them to a lost domain of fae called The Rime Palace.For more information about Trophy, or to purchase this excellent system, check their website here.You can follow Jason on twitter, and check out The Gauntlet’s website and Patreon.Cloven Pine Games can be found here, where you can pick up more of their TTRPG work.The theme music for our Trophy games was made by Gabi Vanek who rules. You can find more of her work here.Finally, here are links to our Patreon, merch, and twitter and instagram.

Today's C-Side is Zack Garth's Hungry Gnolls Eat the Rich! A game about building community and uh.. eating the rich, of course. So enjoy the quest of Tooth-tooth and Greymane as they attempt to steal what food and clothing they can from the human Gospa ruling class preparing for a war the Gnolls have no say in.If you would like to support us we have merch available on our store, or you can check out our Patreon for opportunities to vote on new C-Sides and chat in our DiscordFinally, be sure to check out Zack Garth’s works. He makes small games and publishes them on itch as well as podcasts with his wife Diana on the one-on-one RPG podcast Heart Points.Thanks for listening!

Mr. Smiley, now mask-off to the viewer, leads the team toward an assassination attempt on the famous talking-head Bryan O'Doule of Omega Day News, but first there's a to-do on the floor of the Crystal Palace Casino...900 opens themself up -- both figuratively and literally -- to one of the casino staff, but their affections only bring the crew more trouble.Chainbreaker, now the de-facto leader of his local religious sect, has to keep the neophytes safe as best he can, but his fast-progressing illness can only let him do so much.And Snow White is determined to make sure that she's the biggest beneficiary of all this chaos, at any means necessary.Also, before you go, our friend Gabi Vanek, who has done music for several of our games now, released a couple of EPs with another local Will Yager in the last year. If you 'd like to give her a little love, you can find those here and here.See you next time, thanks again-N

With the end of Series VIII, the Second Cycle of Chimaeracast has come to an end, and to celebrate our latest rotation around our gaming table, we present again our fireside chat - The Dragon’s Den!Life’s a lot different since the last Den: JD and Ryan have flown the coop, and then everything that happened in 2020 happened, so we’re happy to have you all to listen to us. We love and appreciate you. The episode’s a mammoth, so I’ll say this here, too — if you want to hang out with us on Discord, just leave us a review on your platform of choice and shoot us an e-mail, we’d love to hang out with you. We’ll be watching movies and wrestling, playing video games, or just bullshitting.Just because the Den is out doesn’t mean you can’t ask us questions, either! Feel free to leave comments on the site here, or on Twitter, or even use the above link to e-mail us.A couple additional fun links from the episode:JD mentions a Conan story “The Tower of the Elephant” which is found in an issue of Weird Tales from March 1933, you can find an archived version of the issue here.The intro/outro music (ie, not the weird noise Zach made with his mouth) is “The World’s Sorrow” from the SNES game Dragon View composed by M. Takenaka, N. Komatsu, T. Sekido, and the Mercado Inc Staff and you can find that here.Finally, the quote JD used at the end is from Sorcerer by Ron Edwards of Adept Play, and you can check out it and other games at the Adept Un-Store here.Next week is the beginnig of the next cycle, starting with JD, so check that out! -N

In this fourth installment of our Veil series, the party escapes the chaos of Quarters' Arcade, but with two dozen neophytes in tow. Luckily, Smiley knows a place they can lay low

We continue our playthrough of Fraser Simons' The Veil!900, Chainbreaker, and Mr. Smiley seek refuge in an arcade-cum-cathedral, but the recent assassination of a public figure isn't something they can shake so easily.

900, Mr. Smiley, and Chainbreaker have been captured by an unnamed group and now their boss has a job for them, but will they listen?

Today we’re playing The Veil by Fraser Simons! We introduce Mr. Smiley, Chainbreaker, and 900 and do some world building. Our three protagonists are just trying to have a quiet evening at Mr. Smiley’s Noodle Shop, but one patron just can’t keep his cool and then everything goes to shit.

The third and final installment of our Trophy Gold campaign with Jason Cordova of the Gauntlet gaming community. Trophy (now called Trophy Dark) was originally published in Codex Dark 2 and the follow-up game Trophy Gold (which we’re playing today!) can be found in Codex Gold.Check here for a more in-depth look at Trophy.Ezio, Sareh & Thessil can finally see the true blight that’s befallen the town of Torren’s Bend, but are they willing to do what must be done to eliminate the demonic influence brought on by The Diabolist and Show Woman Extraordinnaire Beatrix Mandrake?…and hey! We have T-Shirts and Stickers! Check them out here

We continue our Trophy Gold campaign with Jason Cordova of the Gauntlet gaming community. Trophy (now called Trophy Dark) was originally published in Codex Dark 2 and the follow-up game Trophy Gold (which we’re playing today!) can be found in Codex Gold.Check here for a more in-depth look at Trophy.Ezio, Sareh & Thessil continue through the ruins of Torren’s Bend, and the town of Hester’s Mill, finding a pristine farmhouse offering a brief respite from the unrelenting rot of the surrounding land. But despite the offering of sanctuary, the house holds secrets and terrors to be discovered.…and hey! We have T-Shirts and Stickers! Check them out here

A big shout out to Jesse Ross, Jason Cordova, and other involved with Trophy. It is 100% our pleasure to play your amazing game:https://trophyrpg.com/Shout out as well to hinterheim for the use of their track “Finnaly Lost” which I got from the FMA. Please support their music if you enjoy it: https://hinterheim.bandcamp.com/The Song is licensed under a CC BY.

JD, Nathan, & Zach play Trophy Gold with Jason Cordova. This is the first of a three-part crossover with Jason. You can also find this and other information about Trophy here.Our entrance music was made by Gabi Vanek. Thanks, Gabi!Ezio, Sareh, and Thessel come upon the blighted land of Torren’s Bend in hopes of discovering treasure left over from the overthrowing of Lord Galdren by the farmers and townsfolk of Hester’s Mill, but first they have to find the road leading to Hester’s Mill, and that’s a lot easier than it sounds.

This week, Nathan, Zach, and J.D. celebrate the coming of Halloween with a one-shot of The Skeletons, by Jason Morningstar. This is a freeform, meditative, and GMless RPG about dead guardians protecting a tomb. Though limited in their awareness due to magic only animating them when intruders are breaking in, the guardians slowly remember their forgotten pasts. This was our first time playing it, and we had an absolute delight with this little game.We have shirts and stickers available here!

Our cup runneth over this episode as we were graced by the amazing Zack Garth (of the Heart Points podcast) and together we play the equally amazing Swords Without Master (by the, you guessed it, equally amazing Epidiah Ravachol). Hopefully this can serve as a primer to those new to the game and for those more familiar just sit back and enjoy!