Dungeons + Drama Nerds
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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
Building Castles in DIRT with Christina Tang
“Behaving Like a Cult Already”: Stillfleet Debrief
Donuts is Bread
“Not Just Anarchist Shitposting”: Leftist TTRPGs with PB Berge
So Long and Thanks for all the Piss
Any Other Lies We Wanna Go Over?
Whistling Is Not a Skill: Modes of Character Creation
They Will Find You and Kill You
Escheresque Nausea
Imagining Future Worlds Together: an Interview with Wythe Marschall
I'm a Skinfluencer
Stillfleet Explainer
Take Me Offworld, Hotboy
It Always Comes Back to Vibes: TTRPGs and Adaptation with Dominique Dickey
Watercolors and Whittling with Caro Asercion
Our Haunt Campaign Debrief
12:02
But It Should Be
You're My Number One Baby
An Engine for Participatory Dramaturgy, with Mike Sell
The Sinister Nine
Do You Believe in Magic?
All Plays Are Memory Plays: Collective Memory in Art, with Beka Bryer
The Logic of the Living
The Hermit
We Are the Living, Featuring Heather Kelley and Kaylee Rowena
Open Mic Night
Up Next on Channel 4
Idly Dreaming with Jay Dragon
The Machismo in This House
Our Haunt Explainer
Skitbash! - CyberPygmalion
Dark Time: Actual Plays as Art
Dark Time: Everyone in Barovia is Usually Sad, or, Location-Based Horror
Dark Time: Collaborative Worldbuilding in Theatre and TTRPGs
Next Time on D+DN
There’s Always Room For More Boyfriends: an ARC Debrief
Yok Edije
Doing vs Having: Rituals in ARC
Is Poison Wet?
Turtling is a Very Specific Process
Finesse in the Chaos: an Interview with the New York Neo-Futurists
Aura of Awkwardness
The Seaward Star
Doom Approaches
All-Female Hamlet: A Brindlewood Bay Debrief
Bowled Over By Death: Part 2
Bowled Over by Death: Part 1
Everything is Data: Magic Circles in Play and Performance
Amicable Autumnal Abbatoir: Part 4
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