Three Black Halflings
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Roll for Melanin... It’s a Nat 20!Three Black Halflings is a podcast by Jasper William Cartwright, Olivia Kennedy (but everybody calls her Liv), and Jeremy Cobb: three nerdy friends with strong opinions and even stronger Charisma scores. Join them in their quest to explore diversity in the incredible worlds of D&D and pop culture while doling out DM tips, thought-provoking conversations, a band of guests and good times!Connect with us on Bluesky, Instagram, Twitter, and Facebook @tbhalflings or email [email protected] you enjoy this podcast please help us out by leaving a review and sharing with yo...
Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
It connects Dungeons & Dragons mechanics to candid conversations about belonging, identity, and the culture built around the table.
Three Black Halflings treats tabletop roleplaying as a rules system, a creative practice, and a social space. Jasper William Cartwright, Liv Kennedy, and Jeremy Cobb move between interviews, roundtable discussions, and lively group conversations, bringing the same directness to…
Were-rats deserve better stats; your next fantasy table could use a belonging check.
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Short reviews from the PlayNext desk, based on the episodes we processed.
A fantasy conversation that gets real mileage out of resentment, coexistence, and repair.
The conversation works best when it stays with the friction inside the setting: resentment, coexistence, and the unfinished work of repair. It does not smooth those tensions over, and that is where it has some bite.
A funny, thoughtful episode about storytelling, identity, and why being understood at the table matters.
This episode lands best when it treats TTRPG storytelling as lived culture instead of a gimmick. It moves through Black and brown storytelling as inheritance, the difference between playing at mostly white tables and being in a room that already shares the same reference points,…
A playful rules-versus-story chat that finds real character in mechanics.
Three Black Halflings treats a familiar TTRPG argument as something more useful than a slogan fight: a look at how mechanics can sharpen story.
A loose, funny discussion that keeps circling back to fear and worldbuilding.
This conversation treats worldbuilding as a game of pressure points: fear, appetite, and the rules strange species make for themselves. It moves through sentient groups with odd laws, creatures that can copy human speech, and a premise that clearly aims for something unsettling…
A joke-heavy D&D chat that turns monster nitpicks into the main event.
Three Black Halflings stays loose here, and that works for it. Candice the Magnificent and Jeremy Cobb are back in the Shire with a guest, and the talk wanders in a way that feels comfortable rather than sloppy.
A lively look at how a game character emerges from a whole team effort.
Three Black Halflings uses a Jeremy Cobb conversation to show that a character like Karlach comes out of a whole team, not a single genius. Writers, animation, localization, testing, and the rest of the production machine keep coming back into view, and that is what gives the…
A blunt conversation that turns Renee Good's death into a wider indictment of the system.
An angry, clear-eyed current events discussion about ICE, police violence, and the racial logic behind which deaths get treated as urgent. Candace and Jeremy keep circling back to the system around Renee Good instead of letting the officer's actions sit alone, and that choice…
A loose hospital-set conversation that turns into a clear, empathetic talk about identity, family pressure, and holiday survival.
The episode starts with hospital camp banter and pronoun jokes, then settles into a plainspoken look at how the holidays can push queer and trans people back into hiding or into careful code switching.
Josh Clark and Chuck Bryant explain one topic per episode, from the bicameral mind to Boeing's MCAS.
Multi-part dramatized retellings of scandals like OceanGate's Titan and the Lehman Brothers collapse.
Sean Fennessey and Amanda Dobbins dissect Oscar races, new releases, and Hollywood news.
Adam Kempenaar and Josh Larsen debate new releases, classics, and their own film rankings.
Paul Scheer, June Diane Raphael, and Jason Mantzoukas argue their way through terrible movies.
Jeremy Cobb hosts a solo episode discussing Black film directors, recommending movies by Ryan Coogler, Jordan Peele, Shaka King, Ava DuVernay, and Spike Lee.
Three Black Halflings hosts Jeremy Cobb and Candace the Magnificent gather Ambrose, Alex, Glamity, and Robert Madison II for a roundtable on indie actual play production and Black creators in the tabletop space.
Three Black Halflings’ “Trust and Trauma” focuses on Black community mental health, with Sakai Edwards and Perry Clark explaining why Black clients often need therapy built on trust, representation, and self-disclosure.
Zalavir Nelson Jr., studio head at Strange Scaffold and voice of Aiden Lynch in the upcoming Hellraiser revival, explains why his studio’s mission statement is “better, faster, cheaper, healthier.” He says Strange Scaffold has made 17 games in 6 years, with most profitable and on time and on budget, because the team designs around constraints instead of chasing “infinite money and infinite time.” Nelson connects that approach to Black experience in games, his newborn-parent schedule, and specific projects like El Paso, Elsewhere, I Am Your Beast, Space Warlord Baby Trading Simulator, and a TMNT game made in 18 months for less than $350,000.
Three Black Halflings marks part two of its Jennifer Kretschmer interview with a long discussion of disability, accessibility, and tabletop worldbuilding.
It opens in banter.
Candice the Magnificent uses Three Black Halflings’ Black History Month episode to center “100 years of Black excellence,” Black history themes, and the show’s month-long programming.
Liv Kennedy and Candace the Magnificent talk with licensed marriage and family therapists Sakai Edwards and Perry Clark, who run Hidden Quest Therapy and Untangled & Grow.
Three Black Halflings frames this episode around nostalgia, millennial attachment to childhood media, and the trouble of revisiting Harry Potter after J.K.
Jeremy frames Three Black Halflings’ “BEASTS One Shot: Rise of the Kókórans - Part 2” as a continuation of Adrian Mejia’s PBTA Animorphs-themed game, and the table opens with a swarm attack at the dig site.
Candice opens by saying this is a GMing style special centered on her approach to GMing and her history with TTRPGs and facilitating.
Candice the Magnificent is back from break in the Shire with Jeremy Cobb and Azim.
Jasper William Cartwright sits with Candice Magnificent and Jeremy Cobb.
Liv Kennedy gets Candace the Magnificent and Biscuit talking through a familiar game-nerd question.
The episode opens relaxed and playful.
Jeremy Cobb and Candice the Magnificent gather a loose roundtable about belonging.
A guest drops into Three Black Halflings for a loose, funny sit-down.
The room starts loose.
The episode turns to a fantasy setting built for more than straightforward heroics.
Ashley Johnson and Taliesin Jaffe open Weird Kids with their usual banter, then drift into childhood stories, strange interests, and the kind of fandom chatter that makes the show feel like a hangout.
A guest joins the show for a conversation about TTRPG performance and storytelling.
The conversation opens with nicknames and the question of whether it is finally time for a new intro gimmick after five years.
The hosts of Three Black Halflings interview James Intricasso and Willie Abeel from MCDM about their new TTRPG Draw Steel, discussing its design philosophy to move away from D&D's survival mechanics towards heroic gameplay, redefine monsters ideologically, and introduce innovative tactical and negotiation systems.
The hosts and guest analyze femmes in horror, focusing on tropes like the final girl, agency in characters, and intersectionality.
The hosts discuss the assassination of right-wing commentator Charlie Kirk, analyzing his racist, transphobic, and homophobic rhetoric and the broader implications of respectability politics, empathy, and political violence.
Candice and Liv revisit the Dungeons & Dragons idea of “evil races” after a YouTube video on D&D controversies and say the topic is still active five years after the show first covered it.
Three Black Halflings turns part two of “Nostalgia Hurts Sometimes” into a long argument about why Star Wars, Spider-Man, and X-Men fandoms can become hostile when audiences demand the versions they loved as kids.
Jeremy says Adrian Mejia is back to run Beasts, an Animorphs-inspired PBTA game that is live on Kickstarter and tied to a Patreon Session Zero.
Jennifer Kretschmer talks with Jeremy Cobb and Candice the Magnificent on Three Black Halflings about disability, Dungeons & Dragons, and the history behind both.
Candace the Magnificent and Jeremy Cobb spend the conversation on recent U.S.