An ensemble cast plays teen superheroes through Masks: A New Generation campaigns and guest one-shots.
Join the Party turns actual play into messy, affectionate ensemble storytelling. Recent episodes move between superhero seniors, demon fights, afterparty Q&As, campaign wrap reflection, and riffs that can turn oyster focaccia into a character name.
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Join the Party is a narrative actual-play podcast built around serialized tabletop RPG campaigns, produced by the Multitude podcast collective. Episodes are recorded as in-character play sessions in which a regular cast — Julia, Eric, Amanda, and Brandon — narrates combat, dialogue, and worldbuilding decisions in real time, then periodically convenes in 'Afterparty' panel episodes to discuss what happened and why. The ongoing campaign uses Masks: A New Generation, a Powered by the Apocalypse superhero system, and follows teenage heroes Rowan, Connor, and Craft at a superhero high school in Lake Town City, confronting villains such as Fatberg, the Ooze, Obstructor Constructor, and demon-summoning rituals. Story episodes typically run 55 to 85 minutes and track serialized plot threads — villain reveals, character-power development like gravity manipulation and leadership moves, and consequences that carry across episodes, such as a school closure after a flood or a captured villain tied to a larger crime network. The Afterparty episodes function as behind-the-scenes discussion, with the cast reflecting on scene choices, character motivations, and how the game system shapes the story. The show occasionally pauses its main campaign for one-shot episodes with outside game designers, such as Fiona Shade's 'Democracy by Dice,' a community-organizing game built around a burnout mechanic. Listeners drawn to long-form collaborative fiction, superhero storytelling, and discussion of tabletop RPG mechanics make up the core audience, more than listeners seeking news, straight interviews, or short-form content. Production is dialogue-driven and largely unscripted, relying on cast improvisation and system mechanics rather than heavy narration. The show's history includes completed campaigns in other genres and systems (pirate, monster-of-the-week, high fantasy), indicating a pattern of rotating settings between long campaigns while keeping the same ensemble cast.
Made for: Listeners who enjoy long-form collaborative tabletop RPG fiction, superhero storytelling, and behind-the-scenes talk about game mechanics and character choices.
What sets it apart: Pairs a long-running, continuity-heavy superhero campaign in Masks: A New Generation with dedicated 'Afterparty' debrief episodes and occasional guest-designed one-shots, rather than one continuous story alone.
Join the Party is an actual play podcast with tangible worlds, genre-pushing storytelling, and collaborators who make each other laugh each week. We welcome everyone to the table, from longtime players to folks who’ve never touched a roleplaying game before. Hop into our current campaign: the drama and excitement of a superhero high school! Or marathon our completed stories: Campaign 3 for a pirate story set in a world of plant- and bug-folk, the Camp-Paign for a MOTW game set in a weird summer camp, Campaign 2 for a modern superhero game, and Campaign 1 for a high fantasy story. And once a...
Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Quick improvisation, visible game choices, and thoughtful afterparty discussion make Join the Party's superhero storytelling unusually easy to examine as it unfolds.
Join the Party turns a superhero high school campaign into a lively actual play where comic-book danger shares the table with rules talk, character choices, and quick-running jokes.
A superhero school floods, and your reward is a webbed middle finger amid the rescue.
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A warm, joke-stuffed farewell for longtime Join the Party fans who want one last table hang.
The Afterparty at the End of the Show plays like Join the Party's final wrap party: messy snacks, old jokes, fan love, and the hosts trying to say goodbye without sanding off their usual chaos.
A civic-minded tabletop one-shot where bakery jokes, referendum rules, and collective action build to a funny, sincere finish.
Join the Party's final feed one-shot turns local civic organizing into tabletop comedy, with players trying to build enough community unity to beat a corporate lobby's influence and win a referendum.
A chaotic tower fight turns fire, panic, and table banter into a weirdly tender late-campaign comedown.
Join the Party keeps the pressure high in this late-campaign tower sequence, moving from recap-heavy danger into a rooftop clash where a helmet comes loose, a rat-sized demon gets blasted off the building, and the Christian devil decides to set the whole place on fire.
A flooded finals week turns the ooze problem and Wordsmith fallout into sharp, funny superhero-school trouble.
Final Projects IV lets Water's Edge Academy's finals week collapse into exactly the kind of mess this arc has been inviting: the ooze is back on campus, Wordsmith is furious about it, and the teens are still rattled by a night of temptations and visions.
Four McElroys narrate a wizard battle-royale tournament across elimination trials on Octave Ziggurat.
A continuous Fabula Ultima actual-play campaign following one party through the world of Perpetua.
A recurring cast plays full Pathfinder 2E, Shadowdark, and Pendragon campaigns session by session.
A Dungeon World actual-play campaign following three comedians battling villain Callum Blackhammer.
Series wrap party.
Join the Party records its final one-shot, Democracy by Dice, a tabletop RPG by Fiona Shade sponsored by Working Families Power's World Builders Club.
The episode follows superhero students dealing with the aftermath of the Diablo incident as they face critical decisions about their futures, including offers from hero teams, villain-coded opportunities, and government repercussions.
The host reflects on the unusual feeling of returning to school in spring, contrasting it with fall routines and connecting it to natural cycles, while engaging listeners about breakfast.
The hosts announce that the current campaign will be the series finale of their long-running podcast, reflecting on its history and teasing upcoming final episodes and a Q&A session.
Join the Party 33, “Work.
This episode follows students and superheroes battling demons in Lake Town City, with dramatic moments like Rowan condensing a demon and Rick Powers saving Connor from a sniper.
The episode begins with a GoFundMe ad, then recaps the previous episode where characters deal with a possessed student and find a demon-punching gauntlet.
The hosts discuss what work-study they would do in high school, mixing humor with nostalgia and setting up a throwback segment for their actual play campaign.
In this episode, superhero high school students get permission to work with heroes against a demon threat, while characters confront personal issues and demons possess coaches.
In this episode, superhero students return to school and uncover secrets about their principal while dealing with a mysterious ooze threat.
The hosts humorously reminisce about the decline of traditional bookstores, imagining a zombie-like Borders stuck in the 90s and lamenting the modern focus on merchandise like anime and tchotchkes.
The hosts introduce themselves and discuss audience confusion about their identities before transitioning to a question about a campaign.
This episode continues a tabletop RPG adventure where teens in Purgatory encounter supernatural characters like Mr.
This episode follows the characters dealing with their school being condemned, Fatberg building a new campus, and Wraith inviting everyone to her dad's cabin in Hell while contemplating her future as the Angel of Death.
The hosts humorously discuss Free Comic Book Day in Lake Town City, with confusion over who has a tab at the comic book store and playful banter about Amanda's accent.
A comedic preview of a Patreon bonus episode where the hosts plan a Halloween-themed character creation lab with humorous banter.
Finals go underwater fast.
In this episode, the characters prepare for final projects at a superhero high school, and a teacher is seen meeting with a villain.
The hosts banter about fall and soup before starting an after-party segment for their actual play campaign.
A preview of a Patreon-exclusive episode where the hosts recap the drama and eliminations of Big Brother 27.
The hosts discuss moving the school calendar forward and reminisce about a fall montage in their superhero high school campaign.
The hosts engage in humorous banter and reflections, mixing roleplaying game elements with comedic commentary.
The host introduces a new arc for a superhero high school campaign, discussing a blank comic cover concept.
The episode features a comedic scene where a teacher distributes a rubric for ranking students in a superhero high school campaign.
The cast discusses school-related dreams and answers listener questions about their superhero high school campaign.
A recap of previous events in a superhero high school actual play RPG campaign, setting up the next episode.
A superhero high school actual play RPG where teen heroes chase a jaguar warrior and confront a mysterious ooze.
A recap of a superhero high school actual play campaign where the senior students investigate a villain and encounter a mysterious jaguar warrior.
The cast introduces a new campaign using the Masks RPG system, set in a superhero high school, and discusses the US school system.
A superhero actual play RPG where teens defend their school from a robot and learn game mechanics.
A comedic actual play podcast where the host parodies a Spotify acquisition and the cast improvises absurd corporate and sex advice bits.
A comedic actual play podcast where players engage in tabletop RPG campaigns with humorous improvisation.