{"podcast":{"title":"Narrative Damage","slug":"narrative-damage-7723590","podcast_index_feed_id":7723590,"rss_url":"https://feeds.acast.com/public/shows/699d64413a5156c5d2e5de37","website_url":"https://shows.acast.com/narrative-damage","image_url":"https://assets.pippa.io/shows/cover/1771921842909-39ce76cf-ad26-40f4-a02a-82d610a90b0b.jpeg","author":"Narrative Damage","episode_count":20,"summary":"An actual play TTRPG podcast where your favourite authors swap their pens for dice and gather together to tell tales. Join them as they explore games including Call of Cthulhu, Delta Green, Alien, The One Ring and many more through immersive world-building and high-stakes storytelling (with fun and drama in equal measure!) Between scenarios, we sit down with TTRPG legends for deep-dive interviews. Craft worlds. Roll dice. Tell stories. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.","last_synced_at":"2026-07-24T06:19:21.551427+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/narrative-damage-7723590"},"episode":{"title":"Gareth Hanrahan on how to make TTRPG writing connect with players","slug":"gareth-hanrahan-on-how-to-make-ttrpg-writing-connect-with-players","published_at":"2026-04-23T12:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/narrative-damage-7723590/gareth-hanrahan-on-how-to-make-ttrpg-writing-connect-with-players","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/narrative-damage-7723590","url":"https://shows.acast.com/narrative-damage/episodes/gareth-hanrahan-on-how-to-make-ttrpg-writing-connect-with-pl","audio_url":"https://sphinx.acast.com/p/open/s/699d64413a5156c5d2e5de37/e/69e75f891e5fb1ae464865ad/media.mp3","summary":"Watch as a full video interview on our YouTube channel Gareth Ryder-Hanrahan is a writer and game designer. Originally qualified as a computer programmer, he took a three month break to see how “this writing thing” would go. More than fifteen years later, he’s still on that break. The writing thing seems to be going. Gareth has published more role-playing games and supplements than he can even recall, including the award-winning The Laundry RPG, The One Ring and The Dracula Dossier. He is currently working on (among other games) the DIE Metadungeon, tying into Kieron Gillen's DIE comic and RPG. We had great fun chatting with Gareth, hearing about how he first got into TTRPG writing, and learning how he goes about writing across such a huge range of games. We chat to him about the best ways to break in TTRPG writing, and what makes a good and bad scenario. If you want to hear Gareth talk about his novel writing, head over to Page One, where he spoke to us about that in Episode 263 ! Links: Visit Gareth's Website Follow Gareth on Instagram Back the DIE Metadungeon now! Don't forget you can still win a Call of Cthulhu Starter Set! All you need to do all you need to do is subscribe on YouTube and leave a comment below one of our Loki's Gift videos! Once we hit 250 subs we will pick our winner! Plus - double your chances: Head over to our Instagram to enter there as well. Follow the madness on Instagram Follow on Bluesky Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.","meta_description":"Watch as a full video interview on our YouTube channel Gareth Ryder-Hanrahan is a writer and game designer. Originally qualified as a computer programmer,…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":3229,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/narrative-damage-7723590/episodes/gareth-hanrahan-on-how-to-make-ttrpg-writing-connect-with-players/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/narrative-damage-7723590/gareth-hanrahan-on-how-to-make-ttrpg-writing-connect-with-players.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}