Red Alert, shields up! We’re on an imminent collision course with the first book in my Walk Amongst the Stars series, also titled Walk Amongst the Stars: Book One. The book will be available on Amazon, November 17th in hardback, paperback and Kindle ebook. Preorders for the book are open now. And to celebrate the launch of the book, there will be a low introductory price for a month.

Go ahead and grab yourself a copy here: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0G1QLBGWM

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Blurb

Maeve McKinnon, a computer nerd from the Prosperia system, is wrongfully accused of a capital crime. She avoids the death penalty, commuting the sentence by signing on to a hit intergalactic reality show. Contestants compete in weekly challenges, winning means a ratings boost. The contestant with the lowest ratings is voted off the show each week, never to be heard from again.

Now Maeve is trapped on a luxury ship, dozens of warp gates from Earth, with celebrities, mutants, and other weirdos. How can she manage consistently high ratings when she can’t even make her VR gaming channel succeed? Find out in Book One of the Walk Amongst the Stars series.

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It’s been a while since I talked about podcasts, and since there’s been a new development on an old favorite, what a good time to do so.

Harmontown

The first time I encountered the concept of podcasters playing a roleplaying game was on the podcast Harmontown. After a while, it became a recurring segment to play some comedic Dungeons & Dragons with their dedicated game master, Spencer Crittenden, and the occasional celebrity guest.

Here’s the moment they accidentally plucked Spencer out of the crowd.

Listen to Harmontown here: https://podbay.fm/p/harmontown

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Nerd Poker

After that one, I discovered Nerd Poker in 2012 through the podcast grapevine. They were part of Earwolf back then, and the early episodes are only available behind its paywall. Since those days, they’ve done an additional 6 seasons and are deep into season 7.

It’s an actual-play podcast and features a bunch of comedians, so things can get hilarious.

Listen to Nerd Poker here: https://brianposehnsnerdpoker.libsyn.com/

Dungeons and Daddies

The next one I’ve really stuck with is Dungeons and Daddies (Not a BDSM podcast) [2019]. This podcast is more improvisational and prioritizes the story and laughs over strictly following the rules. The first two seasons are based on the Dungeons & Dragons rules, and then they make a switch to the Call of Cthulhu system for season three. This is another podcast with a bunch of comedy writers in the cast, so you're in for plenty of laughs.

Listen to Dungeons and Daddies here: https://www.dungeonsanddaddies.com/episodes

Pink Fohawk

A relatively new podcast a friend told me about a year or two back, Pink Fohawk. Pink Fohawk is an actual-play podcast set in the Shadowrun universe, and it rapidly became my favorite role-playing podcast. They’ve finished two seasons and are doing a one-off campaign of the Delta Green horror roleplaying game, which they’ve dubbed Delta Pink.

The show is notoriously slow to release but is one of the funniest podcasts I’ve ever heard.

I urge you to listen here: https://pinkfohawk.podbean.com/

I didn’t realize it until I was about halfway through writing about Nerd Poker that all these role-playing podcasts are united in that they are very funny. This is probably why I stick with them and have gotten bored with some other role-playing podcasts.

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