Sky pirates, table talk, and consequences.
Campaign: Skyjacks follows a collaborative tabletop story of pirates, legends, and skyship trouble. Recent episodes move between tactical scene work, post-arc reflection, romantic tension, and jokes that keep landing inside the fiction.
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Campaign: Skyjacks is a long-running actual-play series with a sky-pirate heart and a table that enjoys letting scenes breathe. It is not just incident after incident. Recent episodes spend as much time on denouement, memory, and character repair as they do on ships, vaults, flags, raids, and rules. That patience is part of the appeal. A scene can begin with someone sorting out the difference between the Persistencia, a Lacrima, and an unnamed Vox yacht, then turn into a warm defense of a player’s recall. Another episode pauses after the feather vault so characters can sit with injury, goodbye, and the sight of red feather flags on the far horizon. The show likes consequences. It also likes bits. The table can joke about outtakes, dramatic ship names, and fan-fiction-shaped prompts, then slide into a serious question about what Braith Ashworth wants after finding his parents. Its fantasy is built through specifics: the deck of the Uhuru, blindfolded people in a smoky room, the legend of the Tempest, a desert supply raid staged with theatrical sand clouds, and a world where ships carry reputations almost like ghosts. The storytelling is collaborative in the most audible way. Players ask clarifying questions, refine each other’s details, admit when a note is wrong, and build emotional context out loud. That makes the fiction feel handmade rather than sealed behind narration. Campaign: Skyjacks suits listeners who enjoy long arcs, table chemistry, pirate melodrama, and character-first adventure where jokes are allowed to exist beside grief, loyalty, and uncertainty. It rewards attention. The pleasure is in the accumulating texture: old names, recurring tensions, shared history, and the quiet moment after the spectacular thing has happened.
Made for: For actual-play listeners who like long arcs, ensemble chemistry, detailed fantasy logistics, and character conversations that unfold at table speed. It especially suits fans of pirate adventure with room for tenderness and dry jokes.
What sets it apart: Its strength is the way the table leaves the construction visible: rules, scene framing, memory checks, and emotional beats all happen in the open. The result feels less like a polished audiobook and more like a trusted group discovering the story together.
Campaign is long-form actual play podcast. Our current series Campaign: Skyjacks takes place in an original setting inspired by folktales and classic adventure fiction. Join Liz Anderson, John Patrick Coan, Tyler Davis, Johnny O’Mara, and gamemaster James D’Amato as they tell a tale of daring sky pirates. … Also it’s basically an elaborate re-telling of Weekend at Bernie’s.
A dislocated arm becomes tomorrow's problem, if your fantasy battles need gallows humor.
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A pirate-mecha one-on-one that turns rumor and sand into stagecraft.
Skyjacks Episode 305 settles into a rare one-on-one and uses it to frame The Last Dance, a custom hack of The Last Shooting by Grant Green, as a mecha duel game about pirates who fiercely love each other but also have problems.
A loose opening gives way to Braith's quiet reckoning with life after the mission.
Skyjacks begins in a loose, noisy register, with the table testing microphones, swapping nonsense syllables for human words, and joking about Garfield and the ghoul from Fallout turning up in Avengers Doomsday.
Water, seeds, and a careful ritual give this episode its charge.
Skyjacks settles into a dry riverbed and follows Margaret, River's daughter, as she reaches for water under the ground and uses it to make a small working space for Jack.
A frantic retreat through fire and coral turns table banter into a careful act of survival.
Fire, coral, and the hard truth that griffins cannot simply carry everyone out give this Skyjacks episode a tight, problem-solving charge. The group retraces its route through panic, weighing a swim toward lighter depth against a more intricate plan of levers and pulleys as it…
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James D'Amato hosts Campaign: Skyjacks, where the crew faces multiple crises.
In Skyjacks Episode 294, the crew navigates a burning tower in a church compound, facing fire and internal conflict.
Campaign: Skyjacks Episode 323 resolves a battle aboard the Uhuru through aerial attacks, cannon fire, bird assistance, and a surrender attempt by Bathroom Barry.
Campaign: Skyjacks Episode 322 continues an aerial combat in which Oromar, shot repeatedly, spends his remaining intellect points to attempt a landing on an unpiloted gull.
Campaign: Skyjacks Episode 321 continues a ship battle involving the Uhuru, the Duty, the Discipline, the Tempest, Red Feathers, and armed gulls.
The hosts discuss the names and connections of ships and characters, including the Vox yacht, Persistencia, and Lacrima, while defending a character named Liz.
This episode continues the narrative of Campaign Skyjacks, focusing on the aftermath of escaping the feather vault, character reflections, and the sighting of ominous ships with red feather flags.
This episode of Skyjacks features a narrative where characters face challenges in a cold winter setting, forcing them to work together for survival.
The host discusses the difficulty of finding outtakes in recent episodes due to only having James and Nathan recording together, humorously blaming Nathan for drawing outtakes away.
A character dramatically enters a chaotic scene with blood, blindfolded people, and mysterious incense, expecting a reaction but finding silence.
Mark and Nathan get a rare one-on-one stretch, and they use it to dig into The Last Dance, a custom hack of The Last Shooting by Grant Green, where pirates who fiercely love each other still have plenty of trouble and the game is all about learning pasts, building legends, and then getting torn apart before the next meeting.
Campaign: Skyjacks Episode 303 follows Braith Ashworth returning to the Uhuru with his parents after a dangerous flight through a storm.
The hosts discuss character loyalty and blame in the Skyjacks story, with a scene setting of Ormar and Gable on a tower as light breaks through a storm.
Characters navigate a burning warehouse near ship docks, discussing similarities to a previous fire and angels in the wall.
A character reflects on seeing a version of himself imprisoned and battered, contrasting with his prime and contemplating future life.
This episode features humorous sponsor ads for Samuel Adams beer and Pepsi-Cola, followed by a narrative segment where characters plan to ascend a spire unnoticed.