PodParley PodParley
Dungeons + Drama Nerds

Dungeons + Drama Nerds

Bookmark

Dungeons + Drama Nerds is a leisure podcast hosted by Dungeons + Drama Nerds. It has 179 episodes, with the latest published January 2026.

Dungeons + Drama Nerds is a podcast produced by Todd Brian Backus, Percy Hornak, and Nicholas Orvis, three dramaturgs interested in the intersection of theatre and tabletop role-playing games (TTRPGS). Episodes release weekly alternating between Actual Play and Commentary episodes investigating a certain TTRPG system. Season 2 will feature: Blades in the Dark, Bluebeard’s Bride, Kids on Bikes, Oh Dang! Bigfoot Stole My Car With My Best Friend’s Birthday Present Inside!, and Lancer. Season 1 featured: Dungeons & Dragons (Eps 1-13), Apocalypse World (Eps 14-33), and Paranoia (Eps 34-46).

leisure ·en ·179 episodes

#
Title
1

Building Castles in DIRT with Christina Tang

2

“Behaving Like a Cult Already”: Stillfleet Debrief

3

Donuts is Bread

4

“Not Just Anarchist Shitposting”: Leftist TTRPGs with PB Berge

5

So Long and Thanks for all the Piss

6

Any Other Lies We Wanna Go Over?

7

Whistling Is Not a Skill: Modes of Character Creation

8

They Will Find You and Kill You

9

Escheresque Nausea

10

Imagining Future Worlds Together: an Interview with Wythe Marschall

11

I'm a Skinfluencer

12

Stillfleet Explainer

13

Take Me Offworld, Hotboy

14

It Always Comes Back to Vibes: TTRPGs and Adaptation with Dominique Dickey

15

Watercolors and Whittling with Caro Asercion

16

Our Haunt Campaign Debrief

17

12:02

18

But It Should Be

19

You're My Number One Baby

20

An Engine for Participatory Dramaturgy, with Mike Sell

21

The Sinister Nine

22

Do You Believe in Magic?

23

All Plays Are Memory Plays: Collective Memory in Art, with Beka Bryer

24

The Logic of the Living

25

The Hermit

26

We Are the Living, Featuring Heather Kelley and Kaylee Rowena

27

Open Mic Night

28

Up Next on Channel 4

29

Idly Dreaming with Jay Dragon

30

The Machismo in This House

31

Our Haunt Explainer

32

Skitbash! - CyberPygmalion

33

Dark Time: Actual Plays as Art

34

Dark Time: Everyone in Barovia is Usually Sad, or, Location-Based Horror

35

Dark Time: Collaborative Worldbuilding in Theatre and TTRPGs

36

Next Time on D+DN

37

There’s Always Room For More Boyfriends: an ARC Debrief

38

Yok Edije

39

Doing vs Having: Rituals in ARC

40

Is Poison Wet?

41

Turtling is a Very Specific Process

42

Finesse in the Chaos: an Interview with the New York Neo-Futurists

43

Aura of Awkwardness

44

The Seaward Star

45

Doom Approaches

46

All-Female Hamlet: A Brindlewood Bay Debrief

47

Bowled Over By Death: Part 2

48

Bowled Over by Death: Part 1

49

Everything is Data: Magic Circles in Play and Performance

50

Amicable Autumnal Abbatoir: Part 4

URL copied to clipboard!