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I'm refitting the Sinister Benefactor Patron Tier!
Hey everyone! I'm making an exciting change to the Patreon today. I'm excited, anyway! Are you excited? Let's FIND OUT
Before today, the Quinns Quest Patreon had tiers like this:
You could be a Benefactor at $3.99. This gets you access to basically everything because if I'm running a paywall, I want it to be affordable!
You could also be a Mysterious Benefactor at $4.99, for folks who like the option of supporting my work with an extra dollar a month. Over t...
2025-07-22 10:36:55 +0000 UTC View Post
Fan Club “Blog” #19: Let's Talk About Doomsong Already
(This post could have been titled "Sorry folks, I've got another book or two for you to buy.")
Today I want to write about new TTRPG Doomsong and the accompanying sandbox campaign Lord Have Mercy Upon Us. You might have seen that this game is 2025-07-14 16:30:53 +0000 UTC View Post
Fan Club Video #8: The TTRPGs that "Made me"
In this Patreon video, I set myself up to give you a tour of the TTRPGs of my youth. What fun that would be! Chatting about Deadlands...
In this Patreon video, I set myself up to give you a tour of the TTRPGs of my youth. What fun that would be! Chatting about Deadlands, Legend of the Five Rings, Traveller... if you watch the Mythic Bastionland review where I tease this video, you can see me describing it in terms.
...That was before I sat down to write the script.
What happ...
2025-07-02 15:02:30 +0000 UTC View PostDesigner interviews #7: Chris McDowall
Another Quinns Quest review, another instance of me dropping an interview just beforehand that reveals what the game is. 🤫
Quinns Quest Season 2, Episode 2, is a SPRAWLING review of Chris McDowell's svelte TTRPG Mythic Bastionland. Having now spent a month writing, filming and editing my video, I have a dozen other questions I wished I'd asked Chris in this phone call. He's the des...
2025-07-02 09:53:59 +0000 UTC View PostDesigner interviews #6: Jay Dragon (The Seven-Part Pact)
I'm delighted to be able to accompany that piece with an interview with designer Jay Dragon, who you might know from her previous award-winning works, Sleepa...
2025-06-27 14:56:32 +0000 UTC View PostFan Club “Blog” #18: I played The Seven-Part Pact
I played one hell of a TTRPG this month.
This game is called The Seven-Part Pact. It’s enormous. It’s labyrinthine. Apparently some folks have been calling it “The Twilight Imperium of roleplaying games”. And while it won’t be coming to crowdfunding until 2026 at the earliest, you can download the files and play it (or just read it while snorting in delight) 2025-06-23 18:27:47 +0000 UTC View Post
Play to Find Out, S2E3: The Toon Talkback
We close out the second ever season of PTFO with a question. Underneath the sound effects, underneath our grisly accents... is 1984 RPG Toon
We close out the second ever season of PTFO with a question. Underneath the sound effects, underneath our grisly accents... is 1984 RPG Toon actually funny?
Look, I like making this Actual Play show. It presents a whole suite of interesting challenges! But if I'm honest, I'm a critic at heart, and I think I love these talkback episod...
2025-06-13 10:48:55 +0000 UTC View PostPlay to Find Out, S2E2: The Home of Tomorrow
Our campaign of 1984 RPG Toon continues, and it's time for a DEATHMATCH! Nickapotamus, our hippopotamus burglar, vs. Robert Hopper, P.I., a
Our campaign of 1984 RPG Toon continues, and it's time for a DEATHMATCH! Nickapotamus, our hippopotamus burglar, vs. Robert Hopper, P.I., a heavily-armed frog. In this episode, one of them definitively comes out on top.
We've got something a little special for this episode- I've uploaded the entireity of the adventure module that we'r...
2025-06-05 17:23:23 +0000 UTC View PostPlay to Find Out, S2E1: Toon!
Our new series returns! PTFO is back with another notorious TTRPG from yesteryear, and today my players and I are sampling the 40-year-old v
Our new series returns! PTFO is back with another notorious TTRPG from yesteryear, and today my players and I are sampling the 40-year-old vintage... of Toon. A role-playing game designed to let you experience classic cartoons. Toon's neat for a few reasons:
(a) It might be the first dedicated comedy RPG ever written
(b) It's d...
2025-05-28 13:14:35 +0000 UTC View PostFan Club Video #7: God's Teeth
This video, talking about the God's Teeth module for Delta Green, is sort of like an epilogue to the Delta Green & Impossible Landscapes
This video, talking about the God's Teeth module for Delta Green, is sort of like an epilogue to the Delta Green & Impossible Landsc...
2025-05-07 16:18:40 +0000 UTC View PostPlayer interviews #1: Delta Green
Today we've got a new feature on the Patreon! A new audio delight for you to listen to while dusting your living room, preparing onions or making love.
If you've seen my new review of Delta Green and the superb Impossible Landscapes adventure, you'll remember some visits to The Knowledge Dungeon where you could hear snippets from my players talking about how our campaign went. Now, you can listen to that...
2025-05-07 15:43:35 +0000 UTC View PostPlay to Find Out, S1E5: The Big Jorune Talkback
Masters of the moons! I'm really pretty stunned at how well this episode turned out 😅. Please enjoy this secret second finale of season 1 o
Masters of the moons! I'm really pretty stunned at how well this episode turned out 😅. Please enjoy this secret second finale of season 1 of Play to Find Out, in which Rob, Emily and I chat about the game design of Skyrealms of Jorune.
As anyone who's been listening will know, we mostly sat down to play Skyrealms of Jorune as a ...
2025-04-25 10:44:07 +0000 UTC View PostFan Club “Blog” #17: Season 2 is two weeks away also my brain is cooked ham
Hellooooo everybodyy.
I hope you've been enjoying our intermission of Play to Find Out. I'm super proud to announce that the big show - Season 2 of Quinns Quest - will begin shortly. I won't tease too much, just the above video, and I'll say that this season is brighter, sillier and represents a whole lot more of my energy than season 1. I think you'll love it.
On the subject of energy, I'm gonna write a bit of a curveball blog today. I want to write about burnout.
Last n...
Play to Find Out, S1E4: Your Adventure Ends Here
Skyrealm-enjoyers! Today is our grand finale of the first season of Play to Find Out, the Actual Play show where we play "bad" (but are they
Skyrealm-enjoyers! Today is our grand finale of the first season of Play to Find Out, the Actual Play show where we play "bad" (but are they bad?) TTRPGs from history.
The cache of images containing excerpts from the Jorune books has once again been updated for episode 4, 2025-04-17 12:44:43 +0000 UTC View Post
Play to Find Out, S1E3: Don't Say Bang
Denizens of Burdoth, your adventures continues with episode 3 of Play to Find Out, the Actual Play show where we play notorious, ancient, my
Denizens of Burdoth, your adventures continues with episode 3 of Play to Find Out, the Actual Play show where we play notorious, ancient, mysterious TTRPGs from history.
The trove of images containing excerpts from the Jorune books has been ALL SORTS of updated for episode 3, so2025-04-10 07:16:15 +0000 UTC View Post
Play to Find Out, S1E2: Produce Your Orb
Hello toth, tauther and drenn! Please enjoy episode 2 of Play to Find Out, the Actual Play show where I torture my friends (and myself) by p
Hello toth, tauther and drenn! Please enjoy episode 2 of Play to Find Out, the Actual Play show where I torture my friends (and myself) by playing notorious old TTRPGs from history.
Even better, the trove of images containi...
2025-04-03 09:02:38 +0000 UTC View PostPlay to Find Out, S1E1: Skyrealms of Jorune
What a fine day it is! I am extremely proud & happy to release the first episode of a brand new Quinns Quest show, Play to Find Out. In
What a fine day it is! I am extremely proud & happy to release the first episode of a brand new Quinns Quest show, Play to Find Out.
In a nutshell, PTFO is the actual play show where we torture ourselves (and maybe learn a thing or two) playing notorious old roleplaying games from the 1980s and 1990s. If you're not sure ...
2025-03-27 15:46:10 +0000 UTC View PostFan Club “Blog” #16: Introducing... Play to Find Out
Season 2, Episode 1 of Quinns Quest drops in just six weeks! Let me tell you, the ends of my pencils are getting chewed to death as I fret over which game will win the coveted "Winner of Season 2" award.
But starting next week I've got something to tide you over! A new Actual Play podcast that is... well, it's very me.
Folks? I am very excited to introduce Quinns Quest: Play to Find Out...
2025-03-20 13:52:01 +0000 UTC View PostFan Club “Blog” #15: Here's What You Don't See...
(Header image is from Tom Bloom's lovely game of happy teens, CAIN.)
Hello everyone! A cold snap in England means I'm writing this post to you while sat at my desk wearing a hat. A hat.
Most undignified. I also have a glass of wine but somehow that has a cheapening effect, too. This hat's rea...
2025-03-13 22:12:04 +0000 UTC View PostSinister Hang #8 ("Quinns interviews YOU") will be on March 20th!
2025-03-06 10:37:36 +0000 UTC View PostBringing Reality to Fantasy: Quinns' article for Horizons Magazine
[[Horizons is a cool new women-led magazine offering content for folks' D&D campaigns. They asked if I'd like to do an opinion piece for issue #2, and I said yes, so long as I could share the piece with my Patreon backers. Here's the piece in full, but it's basically about how I might not be a D&D...
2025-02-26 10:33:56 +0000 UTC View PostFan Club “Blog” #14: The heartache of Quinns Quest
I’m back from holiday! And BACK IN ACTION, working on Quinns Quest season 2. But I wanted to take an hour this morning to share something with you folks..
Readers, I’m heartsick.
I was walking home from the pub last night, slightly puzzled from a few pints of stout. I was thinking about what music to put through my headphones...
...and I decided to put on the playlist from 2025-02-17 13:33:16 +0000 UTC View Post
And Then Quinns Went on Holiday
Hi all! 👋
Quick post from me to inform you that tonight I am boarding an Aeromexico flight from London to Mexico City. Unusually for me, this isn't a work trip, it's actually a vacation!
I'm not going to say that this trip is entirely the fault of a man in a shop who asked me when my last holiday was and caused me to realise it was in motherfucking 2017, but it was m...
2025-01-19 09:51:50 +0000 UTC View PostFan Club “Blog” #13: A Good Society Review
Damn! You guys get a bonus review on the Patreon today.
One of the videos I had planned for Season 2 was Good Society, a TTRPG of romance and scandal that lets you tell your own Jane Austen story (albeit one that's loaded with panicked anachronisms in the manner of “You’re doing WHAT?...
Sinister Hang #7 ("New Year's Resolutions") will be on Jan 17th!
2025-01-15 18:59:02 +0000 UTC View PostFan Club “Blog” #12: Season 2 Update
Alright, here's how it is. You folks eagerly consumed Quinns Quest Season 1. You bought the games I suggested! You pledged your dollars to this very Patreon. You left comments, and almost all of those comments were very nice.
This can only mean one thing: Quinns Quest Season 2 is coming soon.
It's no exaggeration to say that the support of folks like yourse...
Quinns Looks Back on 2024 in TTRPGs!
Who wants to hear hour of me chattin', relaxin', and reflectin' on the last year?
Some of you? Great.
Real Quinns Quest heads will know I'm a big fan of Thomas Manuel's Yes Indie'd Podcast, which, like Quinns Quest, is a show about the TTRPGs that exist outside of the biggest brands that people are most likely to have heard of. 2024-12-09 12:06:22 +0000 UTC View Post