Vikings at the Foot of the Bifrost — Nine Worlds / Norse Cyberpunk | Actual Play, Pt. 1
Nine Worlds / Norse Cyberpunk | Actual Play, Pt. 1 The Jaunty Mantis is a podcast of creative questions for curious gamers. New episodes every week. Run on Foundry VTT. This video is an independent production under the Nine Worlds Third-Party License and is not affiliated with MetaMorphic Digital Studio.
“My Sheet Says I Fight Things" | Shadowdark Review
Fresh off our Shadowdark actual play, we sit down to argue about what actually happened down there — and why three experienced players kept walking into fights the game never wanted us to take.
Not the Kind of Roleplay I Like — Shadowdark Dungeon Crawl | Actual Play, Pt. 9
This Was a Flashback — Shadowdark Dungeon Crawl | Actual Play, Pt. 8
A Savage Minotaur, Drenched in Blood — Shadowdark Dungeon Crawl | Actual Play, Pt. 7
Forty Marks on the Wall — Shadowdark Dungeon Crawl | Actual Play, Pt. 6
Unhand That Rogue — Shadowdark Dungeon Crawl | Actual Play, Pt. 5
Shadowdark Dungeon Crawl | Actual Play, Pt. 5 The Jaunty Mantis is a podcast of creative questions for curious gamers. New episodes every week. Run on Foundry VTT with the Shadowdark module. THE PARTY ⚔️ Jorbin Ironhelm — dwarf fighter (Matty) 🗡️ Ralina Biggins — halfling thief (Peaches, aka The Beast) ✝️ Iraga Dragu — half-orc priest (Chris) 🎲 Game Mother — Jesse This video is an independent production under the Shadowdark RPG Third-Party License and is not affiliated with The Arcane Library, LLC.
Never Yeet A Herbalist — Shadowdark Dungeon Crawl | Actual Play, Pt. 4
A sun-scorched courtyard. A 20-foot bull of black onyx with thirty skulls threaded onto its horns like beads. A floor of cracked, chewed bones. And hoofprints leading to a door.
It Walked Like A Man — Shadowdark Dungeon Crawl | Actual Play, Pt. 3
The torch goes out. Something with hooves hunts these halls by sound. And the party's newest member smells faintly of pine.
The Trap at Maximum Trapness — Shadowdark Dungeon Crawl | Actual Play, Pt. 2
A bronze bull. A cracked wall. A body pinned between them — and a gem worth dying for still embedded in the statue's forehead.
Death Is on the Table — Our First Shadowdark Dungeon Crawl | Actual Play, Pt. 1
The Jaunty Mantis crew puts Shadowdark RPG to the test with a real dungeon crawl.
Troika! TTRPG: We Read It, We Played It, Here's the Truth — The Jaunty Mantis
We reviewed Troika! by Melsonian Arts Council once before — but we hadn't played it yet. Now we have. Does actually playing it change anything? (Yes. And no.)
What I Wouldn't Give For A Sausage | Troika! Ep 8 — The Jaunty Mantis
A bull-bodied hero eats twenty people's worth of fondant in one fistful, and asks for one thing: a sausage. They're illegal in Troika. He's offering money.
Roll To Ignore The Cats | Troika! Ep 7 — The Jaunty Mantis
Roll to ignore the cats. The tiger can tell you really want to pet it, so it's ignoring you harder.
The Goose Grease Goblin | Troika! Ep 6 — The Jaunty Mantis
Gormer pulls a gas mask out of the door in his forehead. Moth's fashion sense becomes an Art Nouveau gas filter. A small egg-shaped man hustles them out of eleven silver.
The Demonic Water & The Wizard's Curse | Troika! Ep 5 — The Jaunty Mantis
Darlo rolls double sixes. The oops table opens. From there, things only get worse.
Owls of Floor One | Troika! Ep 4 — The Jaunty Mantis Actual Play
Moth picks a fight with an owl.
Not Ominous At All | Troika! Ep 3 — The Jaunty Mantis Actual Play
A staircase mural of beaked figures, serrated keys, and a horde of screaming demons. Two knowledge rolls. Both fail. The party concludes everything is fine. Spoiler: it is not.
The Pickled Diplomat | Troika! Ep 2 — The Jaunty Mantis Actual Play
Darlo bonds with his new roommates the only way he can: by demanding the most inedible pickled vegetable on the menu and sharing it with them.
Three Strangers, One Hotel Room | Troika! Ep 1 — The Jaunty Mantis Actual Play
A door-wizard with disastrous luck, a death-priest who'd rather be elsewhere, and a swamp-mystic with a mission walk into a hotel. It's the only room left. They're sharing it.