Podcasters off duty, rolling dice and making trouble.
Rolling Misadventures takes a group of podcasters away from their own shows to play tabletop role-playing games, with Derek as host. Fiasco has been its backbone, and the Violet Saga miniseries switches to The Sprawl, with Derek as GM of a science-fiction job involving synth clones, a hacker deck and a hurried escape.
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Rolling Misadventures is an actual-play show with an easygoing premise: a group of podcasters step away from their own shows and sit down to play tabletop role-playing games together. Derek is the host. The show carries an adult-content advisory, and the table talk earns it. Derek describes Fiasco as the backbone of the show and says the group intends to come back to it for one-shots. The Violet Saga is the departure. It is a miniseries in The Sprawl, a Powered by the Apocalypse game by Hamish Cameron that is new to the group, with Derek as GM. The setup is a job offer. A crew meets in a private monorail car rented by someone with money, a space with a lockable door and surprisingly few cameras, and a player asks where trouble might come from. The answers are concrete: a ticket taker who could interrupt, a client who might make contact at the wrong moment, and an alternate exit behind a seat panel. Stanford, meanwhile, is openly uneasy about working away from the usual handler. The contract turns on Blind Violet, which has been sheltering synth clones, and the target is the head of that operation. One player signs on instantly and offers to take out three people when one would do. Then things get loud. Computers get smashed, a hacker deck goes into a bag, and the crew bolts down a fire pole hidden behind a shower wall, with Adelaide making it look easy. The mechanics stay audible without swallowing the story: harm is counted out, weapon tags are read aloud for the listeners, and a flechette blast that goes wide clips Stanford. Patrons get a quieter kind of credit, since many of the NPCs are named after them. The feed also looks outward. Episodes labeled RM Feature give airtime to other tabletop shows Derek enjoys: in ExQueerience Points a party trades grenades and reflex saves while keeping a companion called Shimsy clear of the blast, in Dumbgeons & Dragons a young half-orc named Moot carries his parents' names as middle names, and in The Crit Show one character's nunchuck skills apparently come from YouTube videos. A teaser episode finds Derek thanking listeners, picking a giveaway winner for handmade leather coasters, and thanking fellow podcasters who helped him put together a live panel at PAX Online. As he tells it, the group would probably play together even without the show, but it is the listeners he credits for keeping it going.
Made for: Suits a listener who enjoys improvised tabletop play with the rules left audible, likes a show that changes game systems, and does not mind adult language and violent action scenes.
What sets it apart: It does not stay inside one campaign. It moved from its Fiasco backbone into a Sprawl miniseries, and it gives whole episodes to other tabletop shows, so the feed also works as a sampler of other tabletop podcasts.
Rolling Misadventures is an improvised collaborative audio fiction podcast. Originally starting as an actual play podcast using the tabletop game Fiasco, Rolling Misadventures quickly evolved by utilizing audio fiction sound design elements. This blend gives tabletop banter that most TTRPG podcasts are known for, but also sets it apart with immersive narrative scenes.As we focus on shorter story arcs, within two episodes, this allows us to hop between multiple genres. We’ve been able to play within a wild west soap opera, an ‘80s drug heist drama, and a sci-fi future clone murder mystery. The shorter story arcs and wide range of genres means that listeners can hop in at any point.Part of the…
A shotgun at the temple; you get the cliffhanger and the people inventing it.
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Short reviews from the PlayNext desk, based on the episodes we processed.
A synth-clone job collapses into violent improvisation, ruined computers, and a gloriously undignified fire-pole escape.
Rolling Misadventures sends a job against the leader of the group protecting synth clones into a wrecked computer room, then lets it unravel into a frantic escape.
A private monorail car turns a strange hiring setup into a tense test of preparation and danger.
A private monorail car becomes a neat little pressure chamber as Stanford arrives on guard, Arkady Gibson keeps his composure, and Adelaide Steel Button takes the call that pulls everyone toward a doorway with a shotgun waiting on the other side.
Grenades, shifting scores, and quick rule checks turn a featured tabletop session into competitive comic chaos.
Rolling Misadventures makes Experience Points feel like a scrappy little tabletop arena, with Shimsy tackling an opponent, grenades shifting the score, and one distracted throw nearly turning ugly on a counter.
A sunny half-orc conversation turns an explosion and tree-mining confusion toward bigger trouble beyond the forest.
A nomination update leads into a sunny forest scene, where Moot spends time with Davy and Raquel after a loud explosion the night before. The humor sits in their earnest confusion, from Davy's idea that people might mine trees to the wider talk of worried parents and possible…
Dice, divine mysteries, and the trouble with good intentions.
Rolling Misadventures: VS01 - Getting The Job opens with Derek explaining The Sprawl's 2d6 system, 10-plus full success, and 7-to-9 mixed success before the group meets a burner handler in a private monorail car.
Rolling Misadventures: VS02 - Hacks and Smacks opens with Arkady stepping into Canis’s hacker apartment and finding a shotgun against their temple, before a mutual contact and a fast-talk roll turn the room into a tense information exchange.
Rolling Misadventures features Experience Points, a queer Starfinder cast, and the setup explicitly calls out episode 27, "Reality Shift Part 2," from their second season.
Rolling Misadventures features Dumbgeons & Dragons, a fifth edition D&D actual-play with more than 170 episodes in the backlog and regular recap episodes every 25 to 30 chapters.
Rolling Misadventures features The Crit Show, an actual-play series using Monster of the Week and real-life player identities.
Rolling Misadventures' “Dubai Do Furious - Act 02” continues a Fiasco game about racers Chuck Buckwilder and Cash Money Mover in Disneyland Dubai.
Rolling Misadventures' “Dubai Do Furious - Act 01” turns a Fiasco game into a Fast and the Furious parody about a Dubai race.
Rolling Misadventures' “Bone-ing Misadventures - Act 02” continues a Fiasco story on Nutmeat Productions' haunted graveyard porn set.
A group of podcasters play a one-shot tabletop RPG called To Hell With You, where barbarians compete to absorb power and slay a witch.
An improvised audio fiction podcast where a group plays the tabletop game Fiasco, blending banter with immersive narrative scenes.
Host Derek gives a brief update and Patreon pitch before starting the episode.
Host Derek introduces the episode with updates on the show, Patreon perks, and a call for support before starting the main content.
A group of podcasters play the tabletop game Fiasco as pirates, blending improvised banter with immersive narrative scenes.