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Speculate is an award-winning #actualplay TTRPG show starring science fiction & fantasy authors, editors, and more. Co-hosted by authors Gregory A. Wilson, Brandon O’Brien, and Michael R. Underwood. www.speculatesf.com
A list showing Speculate as one of the nominees for the Miami WebFest 2024 Best Actual Play Podcast
More remarkable news for Speculate—our Girl by Moonlight campaign FRACTAL SPIRE is nominated for Best Actual Play Podcast at MiamiWebFest!
23.04.2024 14:02 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 3
There's an official voting page for the @MiamiWebFest Podcast Competition--and you can be a part of it! If you head to the link below and cast a vote (perhaps for our Fractal Spire show? :D ), you might even win two free VIP All-Access Passes to the event! docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
16.04.2024 14:29 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 1
Hi all--we have an announcement today about the near future of Speculate, which you can check out right here. Thanks as always for the support and love!
www.patreon.com/posts/cusco-...
More absolutely dreamy news for Speculate: our Girl by Moonlight actual play FRACTAL SPIRE has just been named an Official Selection at @MiamiWebFest! We're overjoyed to share this series with more people!
15.03.2024 16:57 — 👍 7 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 2
Amazing news! "Valloward: a Speculate Actual Play" was just selected by Cusco WebFest via FilmFreeway.com! ... and we couldn't be more excited!
27.02.2024 01:55 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Some Speculate news from Mike: www.patreon.com/posts/some-n...
17.01.2024 14:04 — 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 1All three episodes of our first session of The Pitman Sculpture are now available on your podcast platform of choice!
Meet the monsters, hear them take a cross-country trip and investigate a diner afflicted by a curious phenomena.
(Tagging our amazing team for "The Pitman Sculpture")
@themagpiebridge.bsky.social as The Summoned
@aaroninwords.qcg.social as The Found
@themadqueen.qcg.social as The Surge
@mikerunderwood.bsky.social as The Last
with @therisingtithes.bsky.social as The Keeper
Listen to the beginning of "The Pitman Sculpture" here: www.speculatesf.com/feed/podcast...
or wherever you get your podcasts.
Episode 1 of our new Apocalypse Keys miniseries "The Pitman Sculpture" is now available as a podcast! Four monsters investigate a mysterious piece of outsider art.
Starring:
Jeoi Gawain Lin
Aaron Hammonds
Aubrey Knotts
Mike Underwood
with
Brandon O'Brien as the Keeper.
Listen at www.speculatesf.com/feed/podcast...
or watch the whole adventure at youtu.be/Y_UPTPSc2zI?...
If you're looking for something to listen to while cooking, traveling, or anything else, part two of our pulp-adventure Candela Obscura one-shot "Dreams of Oldfaire" is out today on all podcast platforms.
23.11.2023 19:14 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Starting in just two hours!
11.11.2023 15:00 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 2Just four days away!
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All the details about our fundraiser, including a full schedule, here - www.patreon.com/posts/fundra...
30.10.2023 14:36 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 2Our second annual fundraiser is coming up on Saturday, November 11th! We'll be playing Titanfall 2 with a digital hotseat, playing a one-shot of
Darrington Press' investigative horror game Candela Obscura, screening a preview of our next miniseries, and more. :)
Listen here: www.speculatesf.com/feed/podcast...
Or, if you're a Patron, watch the video at patreon.com/speculate
Promotional graphic for Speculate episode A gradient background from pink to blue to light blue with white text. "Speculate Presents" and "Dramatization: How to Make a Scene" At top center, the white and purple Strange Friends logo. At bottom left, the white and red Arvaneleron logo. At bottom right, the black and blue Speculate logo. Social links in a box along the bottom.
This week, @valerievaldes.bsky.social @therisingtithes.bsky.social and @mikerunderwood.bsky.social discuss Dramatization - when to go deep in a moment to evoke emotion and how to do it well in writing or ttrpgs.
27.10.2023 15:07 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 2
Early access for Patrons! - Watch the video for this week's episode as Valerie, Brandon, and Mike talk about of dramatization in writing and rpgs - when to go deeper and how to make a scene come alive:
www.patreon.com/posts/dramat...
No episode this week, as we're deep in planning for our fundraiser next month. Details on that soon!
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Valloward is on a short hiatus between seasons, with Season Two coming in early 2024! All this and more in a short patreon update - www.patreon.com/posts/91151127
17.10.2023 14:54 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Festival laurel declaring Valloward an Official Selection for the 2023 Rio WebFest
Thank you to the 2023 Rio WebFest for naming Valloward as an official selection in the Best Video (RPG) category!
This makes the fourth festival selection for our Caribbean-inspired secondary-world fantasy Court of Blades series with a cast of pro SF/F authors. <3
Patrons get early access to our video recaps of New Jersey Web Fest and BigBadCon! An edited version of these discussions will come to the podcast feed next week.
www.patreon.com/posts/early-...
We've been absolutely blown away by the great responses to Valloward at NJWF this weekend. For folks new to the show, we've made a 'cut to the action' version of our 1st session of our Court of Blades renaissance fantasy series so you can dive right in:
youtu.be/Y6-W9M-E_8s?...
The time has come for The Unsealy King to face justice for his many mattress crimes. Stylish bounty hunters the mattress baron/casino mogul in our one-shot of NEON SUNDOWN (a game by Tracy Barnett), "The Strange Friends Go the Mattresses"
www.youtube.com/watch?v=6D9U...
#actualplay #ttprgs
Check out our discussion of theme here (any level of support gets you early access)
www.patreon.com/posts/specul...
Supporters at our P@treon get early access (in video) to our discussion of Theme in TTRPG campaigns, from home games to actual play. It will then appear in our podcast feed later this week.
11.09.2023 13:58 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
Valloward: The greatest city in this or any other age. A city of swashbuckling swagger and mysterious magic.
Who will rise to lead the Great Dance of Houses?
A Court of Blades actual play series. Three-times web festival official selection.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=w4GG...
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Reminder that we won't have a new podcast episode this week.
However, our critically-acclaimed Court of Blades series Valloward continues this Friday the 8th at 8pm EDT as Carevis D'Arencio faces the remaining Bravos of the Great Houses in our conclusion of the Hibiscus Tournament arc!
Due to some scheduling challenges, we don't have a new podcast episode this week.
However, we will have a session of Valloward this Friday the 8th at 8pm as Carevis faces the remaining Bravos of the Great Houses in our conclusion of the Hibiscus Tournament arc!
