What Am I Rolling?

What Am I Rolling? is a twice-monthly RPG one-shot podcast that gives tabletop games room to prove themselves through play. Fiona frames each episode with the premise, content notes, and the basic rules needed to follow the session. Then the game takes over. Recent episodes move across a wide emotional range, from tender solo journaling to surreal horror and bittersweet family drama. Koriko: A Magical Year shows the gentler side of the feed, using tarot cards, city exploration, tea shops, mentor relationships, and novice-witch choices to build a coming-of-age story. The details stay small and textured. A chocolate peppermint blend, a gifted epigraph, or a lesson written in care can become the center of a whole scene. The Zone pushes in the opposite direction, sending an expedition into a quarantine area where memories, perception, synthetic surfaces, and strange landscapes turn exploration into dread. Its table talk shows the game being constructed moment by moment, with players setting scenes, reading prompts, and discovering what the boundary means to each character. My Late Father's Correspondence adds another mode, using letters, delayed replies, family pressure, grief, and obligation to make drama out of what is answered and what is left unsaid. Bonus episodes broaden the show beyond actual play. Conversations around The Ultimate RPG Villain Backstory Guide focus on anti-heroes, villain motives, single-session design, and exercises that help players and GMs make creative choices. The show is especially good at explaining how a game works without draining the mystery from it. It is practical. It is also emotionally alert, regularly flagging difficult material before the story begins. Listeners get a catalog of systems, tones, and play styles rather than one fixed campaign. Some episodes feel like a warm notebook. Others feel like a door opening onto something dangerous. Across them all, the appeal is the same: a curious table, a clear premise, and the pleasure of finding out what this game can do.