About Us

Hello! In case you're listening to Firebreathing Kittens for the first time and have scrolled to our oldest episode: this is an explanation of what the podcast is, and what you can expect.     Q: What is it?   A: Firebreathing Kittens is a fictional fantasy audio show you can listen to for entertainment.     Q: Who is the intended audience?   A: Adults who enjoy fantasy, mystery, friendship filled adventures. Firebreathing Kittens is not appropriate for children.     Q: What are tabletop role playing games?   A: Tabletop role playing games are mechanics, or rules. Good stories often contain conflict, and having a set of math rules can help to simulate combat. Game mechanics help answer the questions: what was the fight like, and who won? Tabletop role playing games also involve acting out a role. Players can pretend to be various fantasy creatures and martial and spell casting classes. You can be a wizard, a fighter, or whatever you want. Adventures are coordinated by someone called a “Game Master”, or GM. Here at Firebreathing Kittens, we all rotate through being players and Game Masters, which provides a diversity of GM styles and a rainbow of viewpoints for how different people see the world. It gives everyone a chance to tell their story.     Q: Are the adventures sequential? Phrased another way: should these episodes be listened to in a specific order?   A: Nope. This is an anthology, not a mandatorily sequential series that you have to listen to from episode one to the end. Each episode has been designed to stand sturdily on its own two feet without requiring the listener to recall any background information from past history to understand the current story. You have the freedom to listen to these adventures in any order you like. Each one has its own beginning and a hopefully satisfying ending.     Q: Where should I start?   A: Because we have learned how to record better audio over time, we suggest that you start with our most recent season. The older episodes do sometimes have poor sound quality. With that caveat said, we have hundreds of hours of past episodes from multiple past seasons available on Patreon.com/FirebreathingKittens. That’s P-a-t-r-e-o-n dot com. The vast majority of those episodes use the mechanics of Dungeons and Dragons.     Q: What if I don’t like one of the adventures?   A: If you encounter an episode you don't enjoy? Skip it. Our cast rotates so the players and game master will likely be a different combination of people in the next one you try. It’s the same group of people rotating in different games, but the combination really changes the style and flow of things.     Okay, so that’s some questions and answers about Firebreathing Kittens. We hope you enjoy our show!