You Don't Meet In An Inn is a podcast about exploring obscure tabletop role playing games with a diverse cast of rotating players.

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Started in June 2014 by Christine Blight, You Don't Meet In An Inn's goal is to explore lesser known tabletop role playing games through play with a diverse cast of rotating players.

Here's the master list of games we've played with links to episodes for each series. You can find our itunes page here where you can subscribe to the show. If you want to help support us you can also rate and review us there as well.

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A small group of characters from popular culture find themselves transported to a massive tree inhabited by strange beings.

GM: Austin

Players: Christine, Niamh, Tristan, Sarah

Genre/Tone: Fantasy/Light



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Three people trying to get by in their post-apoc community find themselves unwillingly dragged into a conflict between its leaders.

GM: Austin

Players: Christine, Niamh, Mara Dyne

Genre/Tone: Post-Apocalypse/Serious



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Poor John has many strange impulses leading him to calamity and chaos!

GM: Austin, Christine, Anthony

Players: Christine, Austin, Scott, Trey, Hillary, Niamh, Anthony

Genre/Tone: Modern/Humorous



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A solider, a convict, and an automaton delve into a lich's lair to save a princess from whatever fate she was abducted for!

GM: Will

Players: Christine, Austin, Mara Dyne

Genre/Tone: Fantasy/Serious



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Edited episodes of our live stream series, The Last City! 9 years after the God Birth, the Last City stands safe from the Sparked, but for how long?

GM: Austin

Players: Christine, Sasha, Cassandra, Hadrian

Genre/Tone: Fantasy/Serious

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Two tales of chaos! The first follows a group of amateur criminals as they try to better their lives with a get rich quick scheme, while the second sees the remains of a family return to their childhood home when they should have stayed away.

GM: N/A

Players: Christine, Will, Mara Dyne, Austin, Trey, Niamh

Genre/Tone: Crime/Light and Horror/Serious



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Teens travel into the woods for a weekend of fun camping but are interrupted by a menacing beast that calls the forest home!

GM: Austin

Players: Christine, Will, Jas, Tristan

Genre/Tone: Horror/Humorous



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In Marstown a private investigator and his associates are hired to find a missing women but the case is far more complicated than they could have imagined!

GM: Austin

Players: Christine, Will, Tristan

Genre/Tone: Sci-fi Noir/Light



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The crew of the Consortium starship Raptor are contacted by a distress signal from a relatively primitive space station. Investigating it changes their lives forever!

GM: Austin

Players: Christine, Tristan, Mara Dyne

Genre/Tone: Sci-fi/Humorous



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A long time fixer reaches out to the crew of Hexia's Gain to hire them for a simple smash and grab, but such crimes are never simple in a world of power armour, hackers, and plasma weapons!

GM: Austin

Players: Christine, Trey, Will, Mara Dyne

Genre/Tone: Space Opera/Serious



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In a world filled with cybernetic limbs, high powered firearms, and smooth talkers our heroes regroup after years apart so they can complete ONE. LAST. JOB.

GM: Austin

Players: Christine, Will, Jas, Marie

Genre/Tone: Cyberpunk/Light



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After waking up in a horrid place three people metaphysically tied together must struggle to find a way apart from each other.

GM: Austin

Players: Christine, Trey, Sarah

Genre/Tone: Urban Fantasy/Serious



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Trapped in an office building after a chemical spill four co-workers try not to kill each other as they look for supplies and a path home.

GM: Austin

Players: Christine, Will, Jas, Jason Kang

Genre/Tone: Zombie/Serious



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A smuggling crew tries to transport a disguised noblewoman and her bodyguard to the remote Remnants but the skies are a dangerous place even when you aren't fugitives!

GM: Austin

Players: Christine, Will, Jas, Mara Dyne

Genre/Tone: Steampunk/Light



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We return to the post-apoc community of Pear Tree Gardens where things are looking up for the growing town until betrayal drags our heroes out of relative comfort and back into the wastes.

GM: Austin

Players: Christine, Niamh, Mara Dyne

Genre/Tone: Post-Apocalypse/Serious



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A small chapter of Cutie Mark Crusaders venture into the Everfree Forest in hopes of finding the source of strange events afflicting Ponyville.

GM: Sarah

Players: Christine, Austin, Milo, Stewart

Genre/Tone: Fantasy/Light



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Join our small town teen monsters as they struggle with friends, family, themselves, and even fey machinations!

GM: Austin

Players: Christine, Ben, Jason Kang, Sarah

Genre/Tone: Urban Fantasy/Serious



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As God's Watchdogs approach the sleepy town of Fairbrook they have no idea about the sins and secrets they're about to stir up!

GM: Austin

Players: Christine, Jeremy, Mara Dyne

Genre/Tone: Western/Serious



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Long after the humans are gone their creations remain active trying to maintain the tasks for which they were made, and being forced into situations beyond their programming.

GM: Austin

Players: Christine, Will, Jas, Jason Kang

Genre/Tone: Post-Apocalypse/Serious



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In Alpha Complex Friend Computer assigns our heroic troubleshooter clones to a task they are uniquely suited to (as determined by lottery)!

GM: Austin

Players: Christine, Will, Tristan, Jason Kang

Genre/Tone: Sci-fi/Humorous



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On a dark and stormy night a young man arrives at the island sanctuary of Magister Lor with dark intentions in his heart. Will they be fulfilled or can his sister and Lor stop him?

GM: Austin

Players: Christine, Scott, Niamh, Andrew

Genre/Tone: Fantasy/Light



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After the End a small community tries to rebuild while dealing with shortages, mysterious weapons, and zombie bears.

GM: N/A

Players: Christine, Austin, Erin Rodgers, Jason Kang

Genre/Tone: Post-Apocalypse/Light



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A family community works to understand the world they've inherited, their place in it, and what their kin mean to them.

GM: N/A

Players: Christine, Austin, Colin, Mara Dyne

Genre/Tone: Post-apocalypse/Serious



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A foul murder drags an adolescent group of ruffians into the Darklands and a dire plot only they can prevent!

GM: Austin

Players: Christine, Jeremy, Niamh, Andrew

Genre/Tone: Fantasy/Light



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A group of Flying Pilgrims answer two letters begging for aid, and they help those in need as best they can.

GM: N/A

Players: Christine, Austin, Tim, Erin Rodgers

Genre/Tone: Fantasy/Humorous



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Some companions gather in a cabin for one last hurrah before autumn sets in but their fun is interrupted by an uncanny cold.

GM: Jeremy

Players: Christine, Austin, Niamh, Andrew

Genre/Tone: Horror/Serious



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Shipwrecked on an uncharted island four survivors band together to find a way past the unnatural barriers trapping them far from home.

GM: Mara Dyne

Players: Christine, Austin, Scott, Erin Rodgers

Genre/Tone: Fantasy/Light



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Our protagonists for this tale are a ragtag collection of villains from the past and present! All they want to do is remake the world in their image but their nemesis BANK MANAGER keeps foiling their efforts! How long will they be able to survive against a foe as persistent as capitalism?

GM: N/A

Players: Christine, Austin, Erin Rodgers, Jason Kang

Genre/Tone: Crime/Humorous



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In the beginning and the end the Dwarven chronomancers knew what had been and what would be. However it is up to us to discover the in between for ourselves as we begin building the history of a world that will be used in future fantasy RPGs.

Starting with Part 4 we delve into a whole new universe, one where the most alien thing is humanity itself. Join a different crew of history makers as we build a future for all!

GM: N/A

Players Part 1-3: Christine, Austin, Scott, Will

Genre/Tone Part 1-3: Fantasy/Humorous

Players Part 4-6: Christine, Austin, Jason, Niamh

Genre/Tone Part 4-6: Sci-fi/Humorous



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A group of bad ass commandos are sent in to do some government dirty work in Northern Ontario but there's something out there. And it has a very individual kind of ugliness that Freud would be interested in.

GM: Austin

Players: Christine, Scott, Jason Kang

Genre/Tone: Action/Humorous



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The realm of Izya is a troubled nation. Surrounded by foreign ambitions, and barely held together by an otherworldly ruler known as The Grace. Our heroes strive to make a difference in this unstable region. This series takes place in the setting created in our Microscope series and we will follow this story line across multiple RPGs!

GM: Austin

Players: Christine, Will, Erin Rodgers, Jason Kang

Genre/Tone: Fantasy/Serious



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A vast sea of sand stretches across the horizon, making life a struggle for all. Yet life IS possible. Join the crew of the Liberty Belle, a sandship with allegiance to The Crown, as they seek to uncover the mysteries of The Golden Sea while eking out a living.

GM: Austin

Players: Christine, Erin Rodgers, Jason Kang

Genre/Tone: Fantasy/Light



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Poughkeepsie, New York is the home of the notable and storied Vassar college. Known only to a few is the fact that Vassar is a stronghold of the far reaching Knights Templar! Abigail Archer, Galatea West, and Mark Sinclair are of the few and they've sworn a pact to get their hands on the Templars' magical archives.

GM: Austin

Players: Christine, Jason Kang, Scott

Genre/Tone: Urban Fantasy Horror/Serious



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Join us for a bone tingling tale! In it we join Charlotte a mousey young woman trapped in a dead end job and mobile phone games. Find out what happens when those two meet in a drastic fashion in "TERMS AND CONDITIONS APPLY!"

GM: Austin

Players: Christine

Genre/Tone: Horror/Light



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In this we explore a story of long distance love and what happens when that distance grows with time.

GM: N/A

Players: Christine, Austin

Genre/Tone: Drama/Serious



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Listen to the tale of a death god's cultist and an ambitious warrior do battle for the final time while they remember the long road that lead them there.

GM: N/A

Players: Christine, Austin

Genre/Tone: Fantasy/Serious



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Two ill met people find a connection they weren't looking for. Can the witch and the city guard let their feelings bloom into the fullness of love, or will this fruit be left on the vine to grow bitter?

GM: N/A

Players: Christine, Austin

Genre/Tone: Fantasy Romance/Serious



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Three people enter the haunted Majors Inn to explore its abandoned spaces onl to discover that they aren't as abandoned as expected. Will they get out alive or will they join the hotel's spectral inhabitants?

GM: Austin

Players: Christine

Genre/Tone: Horror/Serious



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A group of teens have an end of summer party at an amusement park closed for the season. It's all fun and games until some of them are murdered! Who will live? Who will die? Who will get a ride?

GM: Austin

Players: Christine, Scott, Jason Kang

Genre/Tone: Horror/Humorous



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A tarot inspired story telling game, where the lay out of the cards determines the type of story being told. Christine and Austin tell a tale of a world nearing the end with a thread of hope, while Jason joins them to solve a series of murders in the near future!

GM: N/A

Players: Christine, Austin, Jason Kang

Genre/Tone: Spindlewheel Festival Sci-fi/Serious; Spindlewheel Detective Sci-fi/Humorous



Spindlewheel Festival

Spindlewheel Detective

Being a teen girl living on the margins in the 70s is a tough life. Our girls band together and form The Stiletto Sisters: a tough as nails gang as stylish as their name. But when they bite off more than they can chew, will they all come out the other side?

GM: Austin

Players: Christine, Niamh, Jason Kang

Genre/Tone: Crime/Light



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