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Halfwits & Failed Crits is an Actual Play Podcast where the players' blundering choices and cursed dice are the real big bad evil standing in the way of getting to the end of a campaign!
Listen to our adventure averse journalists in a cozy fantasy called The Parable Infused Tribune. Played with PenultiMyth, a game of our own design!
Or dive into our back catalog to experience our award nominated sci-fi epic about destiny confused space kids in Children of the Spine. Played with Stars Without Number, by Kevin Crawford.
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Send us a text In this bonus episode Kiley takes the reins as GM in a wildly silly one shot where we play bears trying to steal from a honey convention. Join Earl (Mary), Bread (Laura), Kikkoman (Luis), and Mars (Jonathan) as they resist going full bear or surrendering to a life of crime, while trying to get their paws on the most expensive honey they can find. Music: Crunk Knight Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Shaking Hands with a Polar Bear - Captive Portal (captiveportal.bandcamp.com) ...
Send us a text The Halfwits are lead by Bee, one of the creators of World of Wyldrvir, in a one shot called Nokka's Fishing Hole! We figured since in real life we are about to have a Christmas in July party we might as well invite you on this wintry adventure we all had back in January! Find everything you need to know about World of Wyldrvir here: https://worldofwyldrvir.carrd.co/ Make sure to check out more than just our episode because their podcast, and their other guest plays tes...
Send us a text Our resident mistress of the dark Mary takes the role of Fate in this spooky scary one shot sure to send shivers down your spine! Join Murphy the Merfolk (Luis), Lilith the Vampire (Kiley), Amelia the Spectre (Laura), and Joaquin the Mummy (Jonathan) as we race to obtain mortality and a long deserved rest from monstering. Theme: Unholy Knight by Kevin MacLeod Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/4563-unholy-knight License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Ga...
Send us a text All Aboard as GM Kiley takes a cast of kooky killers for the ride of their lives! Join Cinis the Ice Queen (Luis), Ruby the Business Partner (Mary), Maxim the Scholar (Jonathan), and Tuash the Lost Heir (Laura), as they accuse each other of the murder of Egan Bakker with no true detective to help them out. It's going to be a long ride to Fairhaven... Join our Community! ( https://discord.gg/CHUCNTxnat ). Rate & Review! ( https://www.podchaser.com/podcasts/halfwits-...
Send us a text Welcome to the Triangle Agency fellow Resonant! This is your new hire training video featuring Agents Hazel (Kiley) and Finn (Laura) on Finn's first mission. Plenty to learn here so take out your tablets and dip your spaghetti in the ink brace as you learn all about what it means to keep our world safe from Anomalies... just like you. Join our Community! ( https://discord.gg/CHUCNTxnat ). Rate & Review! ( https://www.podchaser.com/podcasts/halfwits-failed-crits-1012806 )....
Send us a text Listen Here! ( https://thismachinebelongsto.buzzsprout.com/share ) Hello and welcome everybody to a fantastic April Fools day announcement! The prank is, I decided to release what was the mini project I talked about as its own podcast rather than a new short season of Halfwits & Failed Crits. While it is a solo ttrpg journaling game, the final product felt way more right being its own thing, akin to a traditional audio drama, and if it does well we already have...
Send us a text Welcome to our Christmas Special! Luis takes the reigns of our wacky sleigh with a game and story of his own design, while the others play little elves hard at work in the toy factory. Follow Winkle Tinkle (Laura) the perceptive elf, Sprinkle Cookiedance (Kiley) the nimble elf, and Jangle Picklekiss (Jonathan) the imaginative elf, as they unwrap their coworkers workplace drama. Intro and Outro: Krampus's Workshop by Kevin MacLeod Link: ( https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song...
Send us a text Welcome to the table everyone! I'm Jonathan, Narrator of Halfwits & Failed Crits, an actual play podcast where the real big bad evil is the players' absolutely cursed dice. Join us as we build rich living worlds to stumble through, meet weird foes and even stranger allies, and display reckless disregard for anything that gets in the way of a great story. Currently you can listen to our Adventure Averse Journalists in a cozy fantasy called The Parable Infused Tribune, played...
Send us a text In this episode zero the Failed Crits Crew sits down and breathes some more life into the star sector. Jonathan reads a bit of history from the Stars Without Number rule book by Kevin Crawford, each player develops the lore of a planet, and finally we make the new player characters! Join our Community! ( https://discord.gg/CHUCNTxnat ). Rate & Review! ( https://www.podchaser.com/podcasts/halfwits-failed-crits-1012806 ). Bonus Content! ( https://www.ko-fi.com/halfwitsfail...
Send us a text After the Scream Pursuit Syndicate met their fate in the final battle of the Prequel, a group of onlooking children were transported to the newly appeared Planet under the Spine, Nedrak. Astrid Folstad (Kiley), John Coal (Bobby), Kamala Magar (Laura), Mohan Wayuu (Luis), and Nadia Kadir (Mary) find their young selves fighting for survival as tensions run high and resources run low. Join our Community! ( https://discord.gg/CHUCNTxnat ). Rate & Review! ( https://www.podcha...
Send us a text Astrid Folstad (Kiley), John Coal (Bobby), Kamala Magar (Laura), Mohan Wayuu (Luis), and Nadia Kadir (Mary), are five years older and have lived a comfortable life in the newly established dorms of the Undarnott Service Co. They wake up, hang out, eat food, go to work, and hang out just to repeat the cycle the next day. Some of the party members are getting tired of the daily grind and want to look into exploration grants from The Principality of Vitr in order to find the...
Send us a text This is the first Faction Turn where Jonathan moves the people of the greater sector around like the little chess pieces they are, which keeps the world alive and changing outside the main campaign. You can follow along with our sector map here https://ko-fi.com/i/IH2H14AW8B! Game System: Stars Without Number by Kevin Crawford. Opening Theme: Into the Portal - Wowobit https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ Episode Music: The Sector - Halfwits &am...
Send us a text We rejoin the Children as they spend their usual morning in the dorm reading magazines, feeding amorphous wolf birds, hacking government websites, and figuring out how to obtain a gun. But their job from the other day isn't complete, and they set out on their first journey outside of Undarnott Campus! What mysterious world awaits where their package needs to be? Find out on Children of the Spine Episode 2 - Real Boats Rock! Join our Community! ( https://discord.gg/...
Send us a text This is the first of 5 games that were intended to be one shots, using the Stars Without Number Revised system by Kevin Crawford, but the group ended up liking it so much they wanted to make this the next campaign. In this episode we meet the members of a notorious pirate gang known as the Space Pursuit Syndicate as they begin a heist of some unknown technology being traded in secret. They are Casey Blake Caldwell aka Casey Nova (Luis), Reina Nadya Olalla Sastre aka Madam NOS...
Send us a text After their cryptic encounter in Lognar, the Children are in search of answers. And what better person to give answers than everyone's favorite elderly neighbor, Frank. Join our Community! ( https://discord.gg/CHUCNTxnat ). Rate & Review! ( https://www.podchaser.com/podcasts/halfwits-failed-crits-1012806 ). Bonus Content! ( https://www.ko-fi.com/halfwitsfailedcrits ). Follow! ( https://www.twitter.com/failedcrits ). Listen to our other shows! ( https://www.HalfwitPodca...
Send us a text The crew of the Resonance is now in possession of a potential pre-scream artifact, and a map to find more! After deciphering the next set of coordinates, they are off to the planet Barbalil, where a civil war between the monarchy and the religious zealots is reaching a climax. Speaking of, there's rumor that one of our own crew may have an in with the royalty, or inversly, is very much no longer welcome here. Hop aboard the SPS Resonance and join CaseyNova (Luis), Madam N...
Send us a text The Children are in lock-down! John, Kamala, Astrid, and Nadia get caught venting, while Mohan stays behind with a clean house and a new friend. Join our Community! ( https://discord.gg/CHUCNTxnat ). Rate & Review! ( https://www.podchaser.com/podcasts/halfwits-failed-crits-1012806 ). Bonus Content! ( https://www.ko-fi.com/halfwitsfailedcrits ). Follow! ( https://www.twitter.com/failedcrits ). Listen to our other shows! ( https://www.HalfwitPodcasts.com ). === C...
Send us a text We rejoin the crew of the Resonance hot off of their battle in Barbalil, a second pre-scream artifact secured. As they make their way to the next set of deciphered coordinates, the planet Ephet-Izaki, we get a rare glimpse at the mundane lives of world class pirates. Infestations, robots, photographs, and a resource crisis all keep the long spike drill rides...interesting. On planet, Madam N.O.S. (Kiley) revisits her Alma Mater, CaseyNova's (Luis) latest creation roams menacing...
Send us a text The children prepare for their trip to the true outside of the bubble! Kamala goes through some changes, John is a perv, Astrid tries to redeem herself, Nadia flexes her pilot muscles, and Mohan hunts down his would be abductors! Join our Community! ( https://discord.gg/CHUCNTxnat ). Rate & Review! ( https://www.podchaser.com/podcasts/halfwits-failed-crits-1012806 ). Bonus Content! ( https://www.ko-fi.com/halfwitsfailedcrits ). Follow! ( https://www.twitter.com/failedcr...
Send us a text With the crew forever expanding with the addition of Professor Kono "Flick" Waotaka, the crew of the SPS Resonance needs to learn more about the items they are collecting and what the end game will be. In order to do that, they decide to visit Casey's homeworld of Astollea, where some of the best tech and minds in the sector reside. Will they get the answers they are looking for? Will they have to aggressively escape yet another mission that should have been diplomatic? Find ou...
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