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#289 GenCon 2025 Live Cyber Horror Dec 26, 2025

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Crystal and Chigg host a live panel at the illustrious GenCon! We talk about cyber horror and what that looks like with different subgenres. Our audience asked many outstanding questions about the genre, including what we thought it would look like and how we would approach it from a writing and GM standpoint.

#288 Gamehole 2024 World building in Horror Live Panel Dec 19, 2025

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Crystal moderates a world-building in Horror panel at Gamehole Con 2024. Special guests include Jess Geyer, Rick Heinz, Jason Keech, and Matthew Orr, all writers in the area of horror. We talk about safety tools, how horror affects our storytelling, and how to approach horror with different types of players.

#287 GenCon 2024 Gothic Horror Live Panel Dec 12, 2025

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Chigg, Mike, and Crystal are joined by guest panelists B.W. Holland, Rick Heinz, and Westley (Noxwieler) Berf to talk about the gothic horror genre and why we all love it. We also celebrate B.W. Holland's ENnie win the night before. We discuss different aspects of the genre, games we love that fit into it, and what we do to help enhance gameplay within the genre.

#286 GenCon 2024 Nostaligic Horror Live Panel Dec 05, 2025

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Mike, Crystal, and Chigg discuss Nostalgic Horror at our live panel at GenCon. We discuss how nostalgia is used within the horror genre and how effective it is at pulling audiences into the story. We also talk about different RPGs that use nostalgia as a vessel for storytelling and world-building.

#285: Realm of Fire - All Things Macabre Oct 23, 2025

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Chris is joined by Hamilton
In this episode, they discuss;
Warmachine, 40k, Old World, Age of Sigmar, Trench Crusade, Gundam, Necromunda and more.

Music by Muzaproduction from Pixabay

#284: Doomsong RPG, Guest Starring Chris Caesar Oct 17, 2025

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Chris, Crystal, and Mike are joined by Chris Caesar, one of the great minds behind Doomsong! Join the crew as we explore this sophisticated roleplaying game of magic, heresy, and doom. Chris also discusses the upcoming Doomsong: Thou Shalt Not Suffer The Wycce kickstarter, where players can travel the land of Painyme as witchfinders in a dying world. Check it out.

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Links For This Episode: Darker Days Linktree: https://linktr.ee/DarkerDaysRadio Darker Days Discord: https://discord.gg/GGuRKAn Full Metal RPG: https://fullmetalrpg.podbean.com/
Doomsong Kickstarter: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/caesarink/doomsong2 Want more spooky stories and sinister plot hooks? Check out Secret Frequency Files 2:

#283: Realm of Fire - Super Robo Wars Sep 08, 2025

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Chris is joined by Tim Linward
In this episode, they discuss;
Warmachine, 40k, Old World, Gundam, Necromunda.

Music by Muzaproduction from Pixabay

#282: Realm of Fire - Isstvan III was Hearsay Jul 05, 2025

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Chris is joined by Marc
In this episode, they discuss;
Horus Heresy, Old World, and Warmachine.

Music by Muzaproduction from Pixabay

#281: Realm of Fire - Changing the Narrative - Write Game Fiction with Chris Allen Jun 27, 2025

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Chris is joined by rpg writer and Black Library writer, Chris Allen
In this episode, they discuss;
Writing game fiction, Warmachine, Warhammer AoS, and enjoying painted armies.

Find Chris' work here

DriveThruRPG

Black Library

Music by Muzaproduction from Pixabay

#280: Bigfoot, the Lost Secret Frequency Jun 06, 2025

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An episode that was not meant to be. Crystal, Chigg, and Mike discuss the North American cryptid and it's many spooky cousins. Can they figure out any good ways to use Bigfoot in games? Listen and find out!

Systems Discussed This Episode:

Call of Cthulhu
Deviant the Renegades
Werewolf the Apocalypse
Werewolf the Forsaken
Call of Cthulhu

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Links For This Episode: Darker Days Linktree: https://linktr.ee/DarkerDaysRadio Darker Days Discord: https://discord.gg/GGuRKAn Full Metal RPG: https://fullmetalrpg.podbean.com/
Want more spooky stories and sinister plot hooks? Check out Secret Frequency Files 2:

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