Recent Posts

• August 6, 2021Out of Character, Podcast

  Out of Character #2.14 – Fandoms

  There's a terrifying word when used in (or out of) context.  A broad topic, Jup and Cotton chat about fandoms, who likes them, who doesn't, the light sides, and the dark sides.
  Despite what you may think of them in general, the Out of Character fandom is terrific!

• August 5, 2021Actual Play, Podcast, Vampire

  21 – VtM: Girl Talk

  Missy eases Cocoa into the Kindred lifestyle with a subtle and classy primer.  Meanwhile, Art and Jimmy pay a house call to Cocoa's place and Jimmy gets to imitate Jack Torrance.
  Both Cocoa and Bradley Kelly are taking these developments well.  Very well. 

• July 29, 2021Actual Play, Podcast, Vampire

  20 – VtM: The Dog Days of Halloween

  Portia "Cocoa" Bellingham:  Graffiti artist, former.  Party girl, former.  Living, breathing, walking and talking 21-year old, former.
  Now she's sucking on a juice box in a reinforced walk-in refrigerator in an all-but-abandoned mall.
  It is a beautiful autumn night, and the coterie are terrible gee-er, vampires.

• July 23, 2021Out of Character, Podcast

  Out of Character #2.13 – GenCon Preparations!

  It's nearing that time of the year - convention season!  With the pandemic perhaps not ending but certainly in a lull, the urge to get out and game is high.
  Join Out of Character hosts Cotton & Jup as they discuss the does and do nots for tabletop's annual pilgrimage to Indianapolis.

• July 22, 2021Actual Play, Podcast, Vampire

  19 – VtM: This Is The Story Of A Girl

  Nothing good ever comes from being locked into a walk-in refrigerator.
  Something miraculous, though?  That's different.

• July 15, 2021Actual Play, Podcast, Vampire

  18 – VtM: Bound to the Beast

  Cocoa is settling into a new life, with a new living situation, a new love, and a new career. 

  Mr. Kelly, however, has a job for her and Ricky - and new developments.

• July 9, 2021Out of Character, Podcast

  Out of Character 2.12 – Running Horror Games

  Cotton & Jup discuss what's needed to run a good horror game.

• July 8, 2021Actual Play, Podcast, Vampire

  17 – VtM: Dog Days

  The search for Bradley Kelly continues. While Missy favors enterprise over espionage, Art finds a lead and runs it down to its surprising end.
  It isn't often that you celebrate birthdays in Kindred society.

• July 1, 2021Actual Play, Podcast, Vampire

  16 – VtM: Vampires Aren’t Real, Man

  Trustifarian party girl Cocoa refuses to consider that the supernatural exist. Bradley Kelly, Kindred of the Ventrue would beg to differ, and tells her as much.
  It's hard to argue vampires don't exist when you're slathered in their delicious vitae.
  A girl could almost get used to it. Almost.

• June 25, 2021Out of Character, Podcast

  Out of Character #2.11 – Evil Campaigns

  The Legion of Doom, the Yellow Lantern Corps, the Red Lantern Corps, th-well, you get it.  Evil's got an allure all its own and sometimes at the table you just want to be bad at being good.  But intentionally.

  Listen in with Out of Character hosts Cotton & Jupiter as they discuss planning for, and playing in, evil campaigns.  The pitfalls, the prats, and the plain change of logic it takes to run a successful evil campaign.

  They may not be goody-two-shoes, but to say they're plain evil is Out of Character.