That creepy feeling is back, Willa is impressed, and a character from a beloved childhood story makes an appearance. Join us for the long-awaited conclusion to the Owlbear Reintroduction Program in the nineteenth game episode of Unfamiliar Heroes!
Willa the gecko lizardperson rogue, Tarragon the orc bard, and D’Zân the weredragon druid are participating in The Owlbear Reintroduction Program, a program that is reestablishing owlbears in areas where the owlbear populations have been previously wiped out. Of course, this is not as simple as it sounds, because owlbears are large, ferocious, magical predators. Throw in a group of skilled poachers determined to steal owlbear eggs and things are bound to get interesting. This improvised, tabletop adventure was created with the Magic Goes Awry role-playing system!
This was such a fun game to play and I’m so happy to be producing the conclusion to this wonderful story! I hope you enjoy it. 🙂
This illustration depicts three characters, each from a different genre of story, and each with a disability. On the left is a black gnome archer riding in a chariot pulled by a large brown dog. The chariot has a chair in it so that they can sit instead of stand. In the middle is a Latina woman manipulating a tech device on her wrist as she begins to go invisible. She is wearing an air filtering mask of the type that people with Multiple Chemical Sensitivity sometimes wear. On the right is a white muscular superhero wearing a very gay, blue superhero outfit. He has lightning crackling between his two hands, which are shaped atypically. This beautiful work of art was created the amazing Rose Adare!
Unfamiliar Heroes is a podcast series where people with disabilities, chronic illnesses, or divergent minds use tabletop role-playing games to together create stories that center disabled, sick, and mentally divergent characters. In its core values this project centers the experiences of people living at the intersections of oppression. Unfamiliar Heroes is part of the Writing Alchemy Podcast.
I LOOOOVEEE the owlbear reintroduction program! Tried to get all my friends to listen to it too 🙂 Where to start… amazing characters, really neat setting, but most of all the fundamental idea of relocating magical predators just blew my mind. in a good way 😀 It combines most of my favourite things, like treating “monsters” with respect without underestimating them, showing the importance of biodiversity and intact ecosystems, using all kinds of other ways to solve problems except violence, like research, preparation, negotiation, cooperation and more. I could really imagine being part of that team and being able to… Read more »
Thank you so much! It means a lot to know that people are really connecting with my work. <3
You will be happy to know that I am still working on putting together a longer game set in the Adventurers Academy. Things have been rough lately, so this project is moving forward at a slower pace, but it is moving forward.
Also, in September there will be a 2 hour one shot game in this same setting. You can look forward to an announcement about that soon!
Cool, I am looking forward to all that 🙂
Take your time though Fay, I’d rather wait a bit if it means you can avoid extra stress <3