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Play to Find Out, S4E2.5: Ghosts, Busted

Play to Find Out, S4E2: Cereal Killer

Quinns' Campaign Diaries, Vol 2 Pt 2

Play to Find Out, S4E1: Ghostbusters International

Fan Club Video #11: 4 More Carved from Brindlewood Games

Fan Club “Blog” #24: Two amazing mixes for your Public Access campaign & a musical chat

Designer interviews #9: Jason Cordova

Quinns' Campaign Diaries, Vol 2 Pt 1

Fan Club “Blog” #23: Getting into LARP oh dang oh no

The Furby's awake! Welcome back to business, Quinns Quest patrons! Happy New Year!

I've got a couple of announcements.

You folks will be happy to know that following my dramatic burnout post at the end of 2025 (one has to imagine me delivering that speech unshaven and with one ha...

Fan Club “Blog” #22: Goodbye to 2025 😪

It's me, I'm the Furby

(No, really. I have sent this meme to at least eight friends in the last week.)

Motherfuckers, we DID IT! Thanks to your support and my [gestures limply at everything] we have completed the second year of the Quinns Quest project. 🌈

This post is gonna collect ...

Quinns' Campaign Diaries, Vol 1 Pt 5

Fan Club Video #10: Adding ROMANCE to your games!

We've got a new, long, Patreon-exclusive video! In it, I pop open the top button of two questions on everyone's lips: "Should I be doing romance in my home games? And how do I do that?"

In case you don't have time for the 40 minute answer contained in this video, allow me to summarise it! I think we should all have more love, romance and attraction in our home games, and I think you should not go about this like I did, with my overconfidence and my, erm, whiteboard. 2025-11-27 12:59:43 +0000 UTC View Post

Play to Find Out, S3E4.5: Familias Reunion

And thusly, after delivering something like 8 hours of content(!), our Nobilis season of Play to Find Out draws to a close. Please enjoy this extra-long talkback that is something like our review of Nobilis, I suppose! A game that is fascinating, awe-inspiring, most definitely a bit broken, and will remain in my heart for some time.

I've gotta say, it's such a relief to re...

Play to Find Out, S3E4: Office Space

THE STAKES HAVE NEVER BEEN HIGHER! It's the finale of our Nobilis campaign! What's at stake? Existence! Peace! And, erm... offices? Lots of offices.

Perhaps more frighteningly, this episode of PTFO will test precisely how well Emily, Rob and I have learned the rules of Nobilis. Guns are drawn. Miracle points are expended. And I daresay there might even be a bit of Auctoritas penetration.

As always, if you're not sure how to get access to your personal Quinns Quest Patreon pod...

And Then Quinns Went on a Work Trip

Hey folks!

This is a quick post to say that for the next couple of weeks I'll be away from my desk as I visit the United States of America.

Why? Well, Like Dr. Frankenstein, I have stitched together several thingies that have no business being stitched together, and have spent the last week full of terror at the unholy events I have set in motion.

The first stop of the tour is ...

Play to Find Out, S3E3.5: Road to the Finish

This week's Play to Find Out talkback episode was recorded mere MOMENTS before the team of Quinns, Emily and Rob recorded the dramatic finale of their Nobilis season.

Think of this as the chat in the locker room before the big fight. Quinns is shadow-boxing in the corner. Rob is adjusting his jockstrap. Emily is apply anti-perspirant to her armpits, elbows, ears and eyeballs. It's almost ti...

Play to Find Out, S3E3: Our Father

Can you hear some rattling, thumping, screeching and groaning? Sorry about that. It's just that our PTFO season playing the notorious game of Nobilis has reached the unavoidable point where we need to start... actually engaging with the rules.

If folks know one thing about Nobilis, it's that it's "diceless". What that means in practice, it turns out, is a whole lot of player/GM lawyering.

Over in the 2025-10-31 16:11:11 +0000 UTC View Post

Quinns' Campaign Diaries, Vol 1 Pt 4: Burnout Edition

Play to Find Out, S3E2.5: Rest Has Forsaken Us

There's a funny bit of time dilation at work here. To you folks, the Nobilis season of the Quinns Quest Actual Play show has been drizzled out slowwwwly, like so much heavy molasses. Each Friday you just get a dollop of plot, and then have to go back to waiting.

...but when my team and I were actually recording it, this was a project that we drilled out every day, over the course o...

Quinns Talks Actual Play with Brennan Lee Mulligan!

This is a horrific headline. There are three other people on this podcast, Dr. Emily Friedman, Elliot Davis and Play to Find Out editor Brian Flaherty. Unfortunately, none of them are Dropout star, Madison Square Garden Dungeon Master and personal hero of mine 2025-10-21 15:54:58 +0000 UTC View Post

Play to Find Out, S3E2: What Do Nobilis Do?

Our season playing Jenna K. Moran's Nobilis CONTINUES! In what is becoming a PTFO trope, Rob and Emily had to do some work to unlock their (bizarre) character sheets, but this episode starts with them receiving them. And then wishing they had't.

You'll find those character sheets in our trove of 2025-10-17 11:15:57 +0000 UTC View Post

Fan Club “Blog” #21: Shocktober Fest

I celebrated my birthday this week! I am - I think - 400 years old

Let's not linger on such unpleasantness.

I want to tell you about how I celebrated, which was dragging four of my closest friends (all of whom are actually players in my TTRPGs!) to Shocktober Fest. It's Europe's largest haunte...

Play to Find Out, S3E1.5: Surprise! You're Gods

Hey all! The next talkback episode about our Nobilis campaign is online! I just this second got back to my desk at home following a flight. ✈️

Perhaps this sounds cool and international?

Rest assured, it is not. I broke through my anti-perspirant about three hours ago, I had boiled sweets for lunch, and one of my eyelids keeps getting gummed half-shut like I'm Quasimodo.

Hopefully I make a slightly better accounting for myself on this talkback episode, ...

Play to Find Out, S3E1: Nobilis

Our season of Jenna K. Moran's Nobilis BEGINS! Enjoy the episode, everybody, and also enjoy our first trove of downloadable files to accompany this episode.

We've got photos, Emily's powerpoint from session zero, as well as the "homework" I gave to Rob and Emily after this episode was recorded- two extracts from the manual entitled "What do Nobilis Do?" and a...

Play to Find Out, S3E0: Preparing for Nobilis

I absolutely love the start of a new season of Play to Find Out. It feels like I'm giving you guys such a treat! Laughter, surprises, truly lush audio design... today is a good day. 😊

So, yes: Today we begin the third season of PTFO, the actual play podcast where my friends and I try out notorious old TTRPGs from history. And this season, we decided to tackle Jenna K. Moran's Nobilis, also...

Quinns' Campaign Diaries, Vol 1 Pt 3

Fan Club Video #9: Yazeba's Bed & Breakfast

What's that smell from downstairs? Why, it's only Quinns in the bed & breakfast kitchen, cooking up a hot batch of waffles & thoughts.

If you've not heard of Yazeba's Bed & Breakfast, you might not think it, but it actually makes a pretty perfect pairing with the Triangle Agency review. Both games have contemp...

Designer interviews #8: Sean Ireland & Caleb Zane Huett

Another Quinns Quest review, another opportunity for the true Sherlocks among you to figure out what review could possibly be dropping in the next 20 minutes. 🤔❓

In this latest instalment of my interviews with esteemed designers, I spoke to Caleb Zane Huett and Sean Ireland of reality-bending book Triangle Agency.

If Triangle Agency wasn't on your radar by now, it really should be- this booked swept the ...

Quinns' Campaign Diaries, Vol 1 Pt 2

Fan Club “Blog” #20: A Combat Conversation

Hello folks! I've got a blog post of a rare sort for you today.

Remember in my big Mythic Bastionland review I made some criticisms about combat balance and structure? Afterwards, designer Chris McDowell made an appearance in the Quinns Quest Discord server in which he was re...