Queen of Daggers, Heart of Fire: A Daggerheart Adventure

Episode 11: A Harrowing

The Harvest Court contains multitudes, and our Poets no longer no whom, or what, to trust. It's been a long, weary road, after all, marked by loss and upheaval. But when the Queen of Harrows questions you, you don't want to lose your head...
 
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
This product includes materials from the Daggerheart Playtest Manuscript 1.5 © Critical Role, LLC. under the terms of the Darrington Press Community Gaming (DPCGL) License. More information can be found at https://www.daggerheart.com/. Any intentional modifications are identified as such as they occur.

Episode 12: Reap What You Sow (Part 1)

Separated in the Queen of Harrow's palace, our young Poets must tread carefully. Even a tiny cut from ones own dagger can have grave consequences--imagine saying the wrong thing to (or stealing the wrong book from) the Queen's most mysterious agent...
The first half of Season 1's penultimate session! Stay tuned as these heroes step further into the core of Lacuna, the source of the Ward, and, at last, towards the Heart Afire. 
 
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
This product includes materials from the Daggerheart Playtest Manuscript 1.5 © Critical Role, LLC. under the terms of the Darrington Press Community Gaming (DPCGL) License. More information can be found at https://www.daggerheart.com/. Any intentional modifications are identified as such as they occur.

Duality Bites! Ep 9: Thirsty Sword Thespians (The Dramaturgy of Daggerheart)

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
This product includes materials from the Daggerheart Playtest Manuscript 1.5 © Critical Role, LLC. under the terms of the Darrington Press Community Gaming (DPCGL) License. More information can be found at https://www.daggerheart.com/. Any intentional modifications are identified as such as they occur.

Episode 13: Reap What You Sow (Part 2)

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
This product includes materials from the Daggerheart Playtest Manuscript 1.5 © Critical Role, LLC. under the terms of the Darrington Press Community Gaming (DPCGL) License. More information can be found at https://www.daggerheart.com/. Any intentional modifications are identified as such as they occur.

SEASON FINALE: Purest Heart's Desire

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
This product includes materials from the Daggerheart Playtest Manuscript 1.5 © Critical Role, LLC. under the terms of the Darrington Press Community Gaming (DPCGL) License. More information can be found at https://www.daggerheart.com/. Any intentional modifications are identified as such as they occur.

Duality Bites! Ep 10: Two GMs Is a Crit (ft. Isaac Allen Burns)

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
This product includes materials from the Daggerheart Playtest Manuscript 1.5 © Critical Role, LLC. under the terms of the Darrington Press Community Gaming (DPCGL) License. More information can be found at https://www.daggerheart.com/. Any intentional modifications are identified as such as they occur.

Duality Bites! Ep 11: Don't Say Action Tracker (ft. Isaac Allen Burns)

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
This product includes materials from the Daggerheart Playtest Manuscript 1.5 © Critical Role, LLC. under the terms of the Darrington Press Community Gaming (DPCGL) License. More information can be found at https://www.daggerheart.com/. Any intentional modifications are identified as such as they occur.

Duality Bites! Ep 12: Settling the Score (Musical Storytelling)

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
This product includes materials from the Daggerheart Playtest Manuscript 1.5 © Critical Role, LLC. under the terms of the Darrington Press Community Gaming (DPCGL) License. More information can be found at https://www.daggerheart.com/. Any intentional modifications are identified as such as they occur.