Podcasts by Play By Podcast
Play By Podcast is a bi-weekly actual play podcast focusing on storytelling through the medium of tabletop role-playing games. Join hosts Michael, Leon, Liam, and Laura every fortnight as we gather around a table full of microphones to build worlds, forge relationships, and learn just how the hell Dungeon World works, anyway. It's not just another D&D podcast, it's Play By Podcast.
Further podcasts by Michael Collins, Leon Barnes, Liam Higgins, Laura Coe
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Territory Nouveau 23: Battleplan from 2020-10-22T20:34:02
Cast-offs, discardeds, discharges, and deserters.
People Terra Cassavander believed the Jovian Lunar Commonwealth had done a disservice. Treating them like nothing more than ...
Territory Nouveau 22: Pieces Fall Together from 2020-10-01T17:42:23
Recall Pumpkinfein had never wanted to waste away in a boardroom. As the fifth child in the line of succession however, little else was expected of him. By the circumstances of his ...
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Territory Nouveau 21: The Coronation of Otto von Furstenberg from 2020-09-15T05:19:20
Prominence, it’s been quite a while.
I was skeptical when Lord Torvald contacted us. Can you blame me? How often do you get a direct line from the head of a Gentry househ...
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Territory Nouveau 20: The Prodigal from 2020-09-01T21:07:53
Torvald von Furstenberg had achieved the impossible. He had accomplished something no other member of the family would have ever entertained, let alone attempted.
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Territory Nouveau 19: Circumstances of Departure from 2020-08-02T01:53:11
Six hundred and eighty. Six hundred and eighty years. That’s how long it would take you to get from Earth to Pluto in the 21st Century.
In the 28th, moving a...
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Territory Nouveau 18: Out in the Cold from 2020-07-16T23:15:31
Had they all feared for their lives when the rounds started flying? Of course, but freeholders would proudly tell you they are stronger than that.
Freeholder...
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Territory Nouveau 17: Disarmed from 2020-07-02T11:59:45
They’d seen to her in one of the clinics near the shuttle hub, under a full complement of armed freeholders. Mended up her broken and bruised wrists in freshly printed casts. Taken ...
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Territory Nouveau 16: Houndstooth and Casperov from 2020-06-16T17:23:37
Suspicion, a cautious distrust. If anyone knows how to foster suspicion, it’s Alistair Hounsdstooth. In this business, cautious distrust is what gets you in the door. Their expectat...
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Territory Nouveau 15: Back to the Vehement from 2020-06-01T19:26:36
The crew save for Chief O’Donnell and Doctor Peryton had offloaded from the Vehement for shore leave on the Freeholds. With Bete, Otto, and Scarlett gone as well, Ambrose was finall...
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Territory Nouveau 14: Float Along from 2020-05-15T20:48:59
The Jovian military wouldn’t make any moves without solid information to go on, of that Virgo was certain. They wouldn’t waste resources to recover an asset as vital to Aspirant Ken...
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Territory Nouveau 13: In the Clear from 2020-05-01T21:05:13
Two years. Two years since Trilly had dared to set down on Miranda. When she was a little girl, running errands for the Vory on Titan, she’d heard the rumors about this place even t...
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Territory Nouveau 12: Xade and Rigel from 2020-04-15T23:28:25
From the moment he was brought back online aboard the C.C.V. Shining Sky Rigel had known something had gone wrong. The whole trip home he had worried that he was to blame. Now back ...
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Territory Nouveau 11: Face Adversity from 2020-04-01T11:43:38
Vettel had drawn sentry duty again. He always hated guard details. He would just end up standing there for four hours, boring himself half to death. At least the rotating patrols go...
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Territory Nouveau 10: Welcome to Miranda from 2020-03-16T16:32:07
There was this saying in the old world, a long time ago: “the guilty always return to the scene of the crime” they said.
For folks like me, who do the illega...
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Territory Nouveau 09: Good Friends from 2020-03-01T21:10:51
After the dust up with that ship of freelancers and that Gentryman from the Union, Commandant Carcanet was happy to turn his attention to more important matters. The expeditionaries...
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Territory Nouveau 08: Freeholds Attack! from 2020-02-15T10:13:15
They left us here to die, way back when.
The Solar Union. The moons that would become the Commonwealth.
In the beginning they’d taken...
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Territory Nouveau 07: Moments and Macaws from 2020-02-02T02:06:21
Linwood was getting on in years, surely. He had seen generations of folks come and go from the Freeholds in his time as a Dockmaster. Whether they came in from the Venusian plains, ...
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Territory Nouveau 06: Thorn in an Elephant's Side from 2020-01-15T23:53:30
Miranda, the fog-shrouded moon of Uranus, in the heart of the Jovian Lunar Commonwealth. A strange and enigmatic planetoid where, it is said, the machinations of the Commonwealth’s ...
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Territory Nouveau 05: Cramped Quarters from 2020-01-01T19:48:07
Just outside of Jupiter’s gravitational pull, beyond the boundaries of Europa, Ganymede, Callista, and Io sits a massive ship graveyard. A vast field of decommissioned and destroyed...
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Territory Nouveau 04: What I Think is Best from 2019-12-15T21:38:11
In the face of Cydonia’s looming destruction the old worries of Weldon Woldt seemed far away and altogether insignificant. Money, work, comfort, all that mattered now was that next,...
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Territory Nouveau 03: Quite the Fortuitous Meeting from 2019-12-01T16:16:45
The bridge of the Vehement was preternaturally calm, given the circumstances. Ambrose Belgard, on the other hand, was not. He sat alone on the quiet, dark bridge, slumped in his cha...
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Territory Nouveau 02: Human Squabbles from 2019-11-15T23:59:08
“The Wingard’s Anchor assembly plant in the Cydonian sector went dark a few days ago. House Wingard is furious, obviously.
Last transmission from security wa...
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Territory Nouveau 01: The State of Things from 2019-11-01T18:15:23
“I was fifteen years old, the last time the Union tried to take back the Freeholds. A ‘fact of life’ my mother told me. Happens periodically. Been happening forever, shit. And we’ve...
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The Interdependency Shuffle 26: The Last Days, The Blue Sky from 2019-09-22T19:11:32
To think, no one had ever seen a blue sky before…
In those days, the last days of what was the Interdependency, of what was Shard, we stood defiantly against...
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The Interdependency Shuffle 25: The First University from 2019-09-01T00:54:30
Imagine, if you will, a deck of playing cards.
The top card of the deck, we will say, represents this tangible world of ours. The card immediately below that...
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The Interdependency Shuffle 24: All the Time We Can Get from 2019-08-16T04:13:49
BY THE ORDER of General Aspect Abell,
Acting Commander of the Armed Forces of Shard:
All civilian, ...
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The Interdependency Shuffle 23: What She Wants from 2019-08-01T14:32:28
Seeing his sister again, here in this place, Orion was of two minds. He had been of two minds for some time now, but the feeling still left him uneasy.
Every...
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The Interdependency Shuffle 22: Undertake a Perilous Journey from 2019-07-15T15:12:56
It had been awhile since she had entertained guests. She hoped she would still prove an adequate host. She could not afford to be inhospitable at a time like this.
The Interdependency Shuffle 21: To the Front from 2019-07-01T13:44:01
General Aspect Abell stared out from the battlements atop the walls of Lockstock, peering down onto the clearing below.
Their battlefield. The Front. Listen
The Interdependency Shuffle 20: One Night in Lockstock from 2019-06-15T04:32:10
Life in Lockstock was a bit harder than it had been in Port ‘o Plenty, sure. Her skills didn’t really suit the place. She was no fighter, no grand strategic mind.
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The Interdependency Shuffle 19: Decompression from 2019-06-01T06:00
They had been in worse situations, hadn’t they? After all the time Bazeen had known her, known any of them really, he wasn’t so sure.
It doesn’t get much wor...
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The Interdependency Shuffle 18: We’ve Been In Worse Situations from 2019-05-15T15:43:09
A white flare. The signal was supposed to be a white flare. Streaking into the night sky over Lockstock while the soldiers below stood sentinel along the walls.
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The Interdependency Shuffle 17: A Grand Restructuring from 2019-05-01T20:26:20
As most things often do, Coleraine's arrangement with the Deviants had started as a simple one.
They'd cornered him at a dive in Sandbar. A popular spot he'd...
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The Interdependency Shuffle 16: A Mage, a Maze, and a Monster from 2019-04-15T12:15:50
DeGrasse. A week and a half has passed in your journey from Oxbow to Lockstock and a few more weeks are ahead of you still before you reach your destination. You have no idea what awaits you...
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The Interdependency Shuffle 15: The Cairn and the King Pt. 2 from 2019-04-01T01:00
The Shard scientific community’s stance on the idea of a “King Aberration” is that such a thing does not exist, nor has it ever. Reports of such a creature are often rationalized as a mislab...
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The Interdependency Shuffle 14: The Cairn and the King Pt. 1 from 2019-03-15T16:32:09
Lyra,
Bazeen’s Bazaar pulls away from the Tillfield Homestead. As it makes its way through Oxbow proper and starts out onto the open road, you settle in for what will surely b...
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The Interdependency Shuffle 13: A Nice Enough Sunset from 2019-03-01T16:04:34
The old farmstead, now overtaken by the fog of the Miasma, had been abandoned by its previous owner years ago by the look of it. Empty barns, a derelict farmhouse, crops limp and dying in fi...
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The Interdependency Shuffle 12: An Especially Hard Day from 2019-02-17T10:16:22
The Interdependency as it is now owes everything to Oxbow, the breadbasket of Shard. Oxbow was, along with Boon and Summit, one of the original three settlements, and farmers flocked from al...
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The Interdependency Shuffle 11: The Battle of Port ‘o Plenty Pt. 2 from 2019-01-31T18:00
The skirmish that came to be known in the following days as the Battle of Port ‘o Plenty, while thought of as an outlier in the everyday experience of life in Shard, did leave a particular m...
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The Interdependency Shuffle 10: The Battle of Port ‘o Plenty Pt. 1 from 2019-01-15T17:59
Suri had spent the hours since her failed test run with Lyra and her new friends feverishly reassessing her original calculations, crunching new numbers, and reconfiguring her runes. Somethi...
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The Interdependency Shuffle 09: The Prodigal Daughter from 2018-12-31T17:59
The Orion Greyfeather of before, he was certainly dead now. Yet what remained was inexplicably still him, that old self in a new shell. The Highwing. The son of merchants. The coward. Listen
The Interdependency Shuffle 08: In the Farther's Almanac from 2018-12-15T17:59
He should never have come to this place. He hazarded to think this, to dissent, as he well knew now that his thoughts were no longer his own private purview.
There was somethi...
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The Interdependency Shuffle 07: Send Me On My Way from 2018-11-30T17:58
An excerpt from the journal of Bumphrey Hogart, Privateer Captain:
“The boy, Caedmon, he seems excited to begin our little thought experiment. I don’t misunderstand his enthus...
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The Interdependency Shuffle 06: She Knows Her Very Well from 2018-11-15T17:57
An unsent letter, penned somewhere in Glasstown:
I’m conflicted, Sierra.
Conflicted over everything I used to be so sure of. My life. This town. You. Us. Was I ...
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The Interdependency Shuffle 05: Hammer to Fall from 2018-10-31T16:56
“I don’t understand why Captain Hogart wants eyes on these new arrivals all of a sudden but she says jump, you know the rest. Here I am.
Company of merchants rolled in this ev...
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The Interdependency Shuffle 04: Glasstown Confidential from 2018-10-15T16:56
ATTENTION: All working peoples of the Glasstown settlement, in an effort to aid in our ongoing investigation, the Privateers ask that you remain vigilant through these dangerous times, and t...
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The Interdependency Shuffle 03: Going to Glasstown from 2018-09-30T16:55
“Hey boss, how long do you think they’re gonna take in there?”
He gave no answer, eyes transfixed on the Northern horizon. Breath shaky under his old protective mask.
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The Interdependency Shuffle 02: The Library at Abernathy College from 2018-09-15T16:54
“The Mourner’s March is about as close to living inside the Miasma as one could experience without wandering inside it outright. Aberrations of all sorts practically run that length of swamp...
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The Interdependency Shuffle 01: A History from 2018-08-31T16:53
“Some 130 years ago, a dangerous miasma appeared and began swallowing up the land and sea in a toxic purple fog. It killed the people and animals caught inside, though not quickly. For 10 ye...
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