Upcoming events and episodes.

[Release Date TBD] Faer's Quest
Aug
31

[Release Date TBD] Faer's Quest

The next 8 episodes of Side Character Quest will began airing in August of 2024. The exact date will be announced closer to release.

The quest stars Joshua Lorimer as Abbot Faer Landing, the leader of an isolated religious sect, east of Circ and separate from Congress Monastery.

Josh is the GM of the family friendly Dungeons & Dragons actual play podcast Titans of All'Terra. He was also a player on the D&D actual play podcast Sneak Attack!, and he recently joined the D&D podcast I Cast Fireball as the character Buster.

Josh has also started hosting games on Start Playing, a platform for matching professional game masters with players.

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Roll For Good May 2024:  Solemn Vale
May
18

Roll For Good May 2024: Solemn Vale

Side Character Quest’s GM and host Ty will be guesting on an actual play Live Stream hosted by Roll For Good in support of Doctors Without Borders

Donations to the organization can be sent to this link.

The stream will feature the horror game Solemn Vale by Dirty Vortex.

Solemn Vale will be GMed by Fiona [She/Her], from The DM's Book Club and What Am I Rolling?.

In addition to Ty, there are three other players:

Fondue [He/Him] runs the Youtube channel Dice & Easy, which specializes in Foundry VTT tutorials. He also streams on Twitch.

Jess [She/They] is the producer for 3 Black Halflings, a podcast about “diversity and dice rolling.”

Maddy [They/Them] is a player on the actual play podcast Realms of Peril and Glory and the host of A Game of One's Own, an actual play podcast that specializes in solo/duet TTRPGs.

Nev [She/They] is the stream’s producer. She is also an artist!

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2023 Halloween Special: Don’t Play This Game
Oct
13

2023 Halloween Special: Don’t Play This Game

This Halloween season, Side Character Quest is teaming up with Parable Games (makers of the horror tabletop roleplaying game Shiver) to demo their new entry into the horror genre: Don’t Play This Game.

Listen to the episode now!

A mock-up of Don’t Play This Game’s gamebook, dice, and various spooky stuff.

DPTG is a unique legacy solo horror experience that has players live out their own found footage horror movie. Although this is a solo game, players are invited to pass the record they create while playing to a new victim, who then has to pick up the curse where the first player left off.

On October 13th, we will be releasing Ty’s playthrough of DPTG, dramatized and sound designed to recreate the feeling Ty had when playing the game himself. Listeners are encouraged to pick up where his story leaves off, continuing the legacy in their own playthrough of Don’t Play This Game. Click here for resources.

The cover art for the upcoming episode of Side Character Quest. The illustration includes a neon green rabbit’s foot key chain, a handheld tape recorder, a set of dice, and a ring of barbed wire.

Find Side Character Quest anywhere you listen to podcasts!

Don’t Play This Game is launching on Kickstarter 3rd Oct 2023 at 4pm GMT and will finish on November 2nd 2023.

Parable Games has provided Side Character Quest with a free demo of the game but is otherwise not sponsoring this episode. Special thanks to friends of the show Morgan Spatola and Dan Spencer for their help brainstorming this project. Watch for more information on future projects.

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Ty guests on “Finish It!” Podcast (again)
Oct
28

Ty guests on “Finish It!” Podcast (again)

Show: Finish It!
Episode: EP. 221. CREEPTOBSCARE ’22: COULD YOU BE A DEER WITH TY!
When/Where: Whenever you want, wherever you listen to podcasts!

Since Matt (one of the hosts of Finish It!) is out this week, Ty is filling in!

The shadow of Creetobscare grows long as Ty from Side Character Quest joins us to find out if we could be a deer! What could be spookier?! Three deer? DON’T BE RIDICULOUS! Ty gets stuck in deer Groundhog Day, rutting territory is disputed, and vegetation is munched.

Also, Ty brings a homerun D&D style quiz adventure that is NOT TO BE MISSED. Dracula has kidnapped Matt, and Chris must use his ttrpg skills top set him free! Sorry Matt!

Each week, Matt Ty and Chris read through an interactive fiction book. Their goal? Read every page and every ending of every book, until they have died or gone mad. Or until they’ve “finished it,” I guess.

For Ty’s second episode, the crew reads through Survival: Could you be a Deer?

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Ty guests on "Finish It!" Podcast
Jun
29

Ty guests on "Finish It!" Podcast

Show: Finish It!
Episode: EP. 209. COULD YOU BE A MOUSE? WITH TY!
When/Where: Whenever you want, wherever you listen to podcasts!

Join the host of Side Character Quest as he guests on one of his favorite podcasts, Finish It!:

This week, Chris and Matt welcome the extraordinarily talented Ty from the extraordinarily terrific Side Character Quest and surprise him with a read from a wild book from his childhood!

Check out Ty on the Twitter and go listen to Side Character Quest right now! Or actually maybe listen to this episode first… Hey, you know what? You do you!

Each week, brothers Matt and Chris read through an interactive fiction book. Their goal? Read every page and every ending of every book, until they have died or gone mad. Or until they’ve “finished it,” I guess.

For Ty’s episode, the crew reads through Survival: Could you be a Mouse?

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