The Poets are back! Mere days after the events of last season, our four heroes have split up to explore Lacuna, in very different ways. Their reflections on the events that brought them here are strangely vivid--a well-worn storytelling device, to be sure. But then, in Lacuna, mechanics and meaning are separated thanks to the Caudal Ward, and Wards aren't quite what they used to be... STARRING

Jay Ben Markson as Lemma Katie McLean Hainsworth as Evelyn David Skeist as OrLeon Carmela Smith as Ginny and Asteria the Hag as Game Master

Produced by Asteria (aka Liz Thaler) and Carmela Smith

Sound Editor Carmela Smith

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Carmela and David interview each other about coming from opposite ends of our group's spectra of experience--those who have gamed before, and those who have publicly performed. They also happen to be two of the kindest, most curious people in the world, and their dialogue is a must-listen for *anybody* interested in the art of roleplay.

The Actor and The Gamer, our new duality! For of course, Dearest Listener, both of these players are ::gasp!:: both.

Listen to the actual play podcast we're talking around, "Queen of Daggers, Heart of Fire," at https://www.hagdealgaming.com/qod-podcast

Featuring David Skeist and Carmela Smith

Edited by Asteria

David was bursting to ask Carmela about her approach to the sound editing of the podcast--specifically, her use of music. Carmela walks us through how she taught herself to score hours and hours of actual play, with the help of her tingly brain.

Listen to the actual play podcast we're talking around, "Queen of Daggers, Heart of Fire," at https://www.hagdealgaming.com/qod-podcast

Featuring David Skeist and Carmela Smith

Edited by Asteria

Two Daggerheart actual play GMs? Definitely not a hat on a hat. Part 2 of Asteria's chat with DODOBORNE'S Isaac Allen Burns—A gleeful GM squawkfest on such topics as collaborative combat, facing up to table conflict, and how those darn players foil ones evil schemes.

Dodoborne: www.dodoborne.com

YouTube: @DodoBornePod

BlueSky: https://bsky.app/profile/dodoborne.com

Listen to the actual play podcast we're (normally) talking around, "Queen of Daggers, Heart of Fire," at https://www.hagdealgaming.com/qod-podcast

Featuring Isaac Allen Burns and Asteria the Hag

Edited by Asteria

Can one podcast withstand the might of *two* Daggerheart GMs? Nope! We had to split this one up, it was just too powerful.

DODOBORNE'S Isaac Allen Burns joins Asteria to squawk about collaborative GMing, the eerie power of their words, and how they both fell in love with Daggerheart on sight.

Dodoborne: www.dodoborne.com

YouTube: @DodoBornePod

BlueSky: https://bsky.app/profile/dodoborne.com

Listen to the actual play podcast we're (normally) talking around, "Queen of Daggers, Heart of Fire," at https://www.hagdealgaming.com/qod-podcast

Featuring Isaac Allen Burns and Asteria (aka Liz Thaler)

Edited by Asteria

The Heart Afire is finally within reach...in the claws of a grinning hag. Our young Poets will have their wits to rely on, but this quest has drawn them deeper, into their own exiled Hopes. What can they trust, here at the Ward's source? What will they trade, and what will they choose? Our Season 1 Finale.

CW: Thoughts and urges related to self-harm - [1:41:43-1:50:02]

STARRING

Jay Ben Markson as Lemma Katie McLean Hainsworth as Evelyn David Skeist as OrLeon Carmela Smith as Ginny and Asteria the Hag as Game Master

Produced by Asteria (aka Liz Thaler) and Carmela Smith

Sound Editor Carmela Smith

The morning brings many surprises in the Queen of Harrows' palace: breakfast, gifts, hexes, childhood friends...and a voyage into the forbidden.

The second half of Season 1's penultimate session! It is a twisting trail indeed that leads our young Poets to their goal--a trail that may know their goals better than they do.

STARRING

Jay Ben Markson as Lemma Katie McLean Hainsworth as Evelyn David Skeist as OrLeon Carmela Smith as Ginny and Asteria the Hag as Game Master

Produced by Asteria (aka Liz Thaler) and Carmela Smith

Sound Editor Carmela Smith

In a wide-ranging episode, David and Asteria wax philosophical--and psychological, and dramaturgical--about the art of TTRPG storytelling. Get ready for two hyper-intellectual elder millennials who've made theater together since the 90s, cuz they're gonna talk about Daggerheart! (And Jacques Lacan. And we cut the part where they try to remember the plot of Armageddon.)

Listen to the actual play podcast we're talking around, "Queen of Daggers, Heart of Fire," at https://www.hagdealgaming.com/qod-podcast

Featuring David Skeist and Asteria (aka Liz Thaler)

Edited by Asteria