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GM notes: I'm A Lover Not A Fighter + Lady Althea's Outfit & Zeppelin doodles

Hi! Welcome inside Jillian’s brain as I tell you about the snakes on a zep-plane (zeppelin) and playing I’m a Lover Not a Fighter with Anna Anthropy.

Jesse and I met Anna at the Toronto Comic Arts Festival in 2019. She was leading LARP sessions of her game All My Exes Are In Mech Suits (which we played on the podcast in our first season of one-shots). Jesse and I naturally signed up t...

GM Notes: Glitter Hearts (ft. bonus art)

Hey pals, Jillian here.

To design this magical girl episode, I found Sailor Moon R: The Movie online and ripped off its dramatic structure. It was a crisp 60 minute film so I thought it was perfect. It started with a minion battle, then the gang traveled to a second location for the boss fight, so that’s what our Montreal gals did with the snowmen and then Blanche!

I’ve never pe...

Guffawsoleum: Glitterhearts

Hi everyone, and welcome to another Guffawsoleum!

Our Glitterhearts edition is almost as action packed as the episode! There's a whole eating contest I ended up cutting out so that we could get to the main action of the episode a bit quicker, but I'm glad we can share it with you all here.

Thanks again for your support, and see you in two weeks!

-Jorie

Guffawsoleum: Bluebeard's Bride (Part 2)

Hello everyone and happy new year!

Part Two of our Bluebeard's Bride outtakes were less about making complex moral decisions and more about limited-edition Canadian desserts from the early aughts.

We hope you enjoy, and thanks again for your support!

-Jorie

DM Notes: Bluebeard's Bride (Part 2)

Happy New Year, Patrons!

Here's a little something different for this post! I (Jesse)  actually composed some music for our Bluebeard's Bride episode! Jorie wanted a little musicbox theme that could be rearranged and repurposed throughout the episode. I don't really know anything about music theory (so don't @ me), but I had a lot of fun messing around with these tracks from the epis...

New Guffawsoleum Artwork!

Greetings, dear patrons!

Just a note that we have updated the artwork for our Patron RSS feed! Those at the Apprentice ($5) and above tiers should keep an eye out for this artwork on whatever app they use to listen to our Guffawsoleum entries for each episode. So much better than having our logo twice, right?

This little doodle was done by Jesse, depicting the Guffawsoleum rising up...

Guffawsoleum: Bluebeards Bride Part 1

Hey everyone! Welcome again, to the Guffawsoleum. 

Only a few jokes this week, I thought it might be nice to share a few of the meta-game conversations that got cut from the episode. Off the top, we talk a little bit about the mechanics of the game, and leaving rooms specifically, and at the end we talk about how we may (and if we should) separate our modern sensibilities from our in...

DM Notes: Bluebeard's Bride (Part One)

The Bride with the Fox Boy (by Jorie)

I hope you enjoyed listening to the first half of our Bluebeard's Bride game! It's such a unique RPG with so much personality and perspective to play with. It's also a really intense horror game with a lot of dark themes.

Our last h...

GM Notes: Visigoths Vs. Mall Goths

Happy new episode day! Jesse here with a couple of notes on our game of Visigoths Vs. Mall Goths.

This was a goofy one-shot, and I was totally fine letting the players do whatever they wanted in this absurd mall. (Though, for the record, I do think going to college is an acceptable life choice.) But there were a c...

Guffawsoleum - Visigoths Vs. Mall Goths: Paler Than Nicole Kidman

It's time for a quick trip to the Guffawsoleum to see what was left over from our game of Visigoths Vs. Mall Goths. We take a closer look at Eli's character sheet and get to hear an unreleased Onyx original. Also, for the record, this is a Nicole Kidman stan podcast.

Oh, Maker - Game Notes & ART

Hi everyone! Jillian here. 

This game had no GM so we did something a little different for the GM Notes. We had the core cast draw their characters!

Before I show off the art, let me tell you how this game came together. In the summer of last year, I organized an event and invited Kienna Shaw (our guest) to be a speaker. I didn't know Kienna yet but I had seen their thesis on R...

Guffawsoleum - Oh Maker

Our first post-Lakeshore Guffawsoleum...

Oh Maker was really fun, and lots of good stuff ended up on the cutting room floor! We're starting off with the discussion about which creator we chose before going into the usual fare of jokes that were cut for time, fumbles and a few deleted scenes.

Thank you so much for joining us! See you in 2 weeks <3

DM Notes: Lakeshore 21

Ahhh!

It's the end of Lakeshore! The spire has fallen, the signal is silenced, and it's time to sift through the pieces.

First of all, I'd like to say thank you to everyone who listened to Lakeshore. Romping around a wildly anachronistic, geographically-spurious Toronto has been a ton of fun, and we hope you've enjoyed the ride. As MC, I really tried to honour the principles of Urba...

Guffawsoleum - Lakeshore 21: Tiger Talk

Guffawsoleum - Lakeshore 21: Tiger Talk (Transcript) 

It's the end of Lakeshore, and I think two very long recording sessions for the finale broke our brains a little. Jordan waxes rhapsodic on the topic of Dragonballs, Jesse practices regional Brit...

Guffawsoleum: Lakeshore - Part 20 - Roman’s Hospice

Welcome back to the Guffawsoleum! Join us, as usual, for talk of zoology, music and a scene that we had to cut for time. 

Thank you and hope to see you next time!

DM Notes: Lakeshore 20

The finale of Lakeshore is here! Well--the first half of it. The beginning of the end, if you will.

Here are some juicy notes and fun facts about the session!

As far as historical content, I was obviously greatly inspired by the World's Fairs and Exhibitions of the 19th and early 20th centuries. Fairs are obviously great, and the dedication to displaying advances in engineering, tec...

DM Notes: Lakeshore 19

Patrons! I'm writing you these notes on the weekend of Canadian Thanksgiving. I'm about to eat my weight in Tofurkey, and I hope you are finding a little bit of time for peace and relaxation, too. You're worth it!

Since I (Jesse) edited this episode, I thought I'd give you some tech-and-editing flavoured behind the scenes info this time around.

Two big firsts for Many Realms in this...

Guffawsoleum: Lakeshore - Part 19 - The Truth About 1G

This Guffawsoleum is a compendium of subjects we know nothing about--banjos, 5G, and child literacy, to name a few! We may edit the podcast to sound smooth and sophisticated, but our sins our stashed here in the Guffawsoleum, dear patrons, for your amusement.

Guffawsoleum: Lakeshore - Part 18 - Jazz Faction

Hi everyone, and welcome to this week's Guffawsoleum!  

Join us as we talk about local land development, the nature of corruption and as always, Jazz!

Thanks again for all your support - see you in two weeks!

DM Notes: Lakeshore 18

Good afternoon, patrons! Now that you've listened to episode 18, allow me to offer some notes and behind-the-scenes tidbits for this episode!

• A recurring point at this stage of the campaign: I had imagined that the team might head to the mysterious northern factory a lot earlier than they did, especially when Roman saw it as a source of magical energy when flying over the city in ep...
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Guffawsoleum: Lakeshore - Part 17 - Demeaning Slap!

Hi everyone and thanks for joining us for another Guffawsoleum! This week we have a full deleted scene that we opted to cut for time as well as some of our usual shorter bloopers and jokes.

Have fun!

DM Notes: Lakeshore 17

It's a very emotional week in Lakeshore! Just about everyone gets feisty in this episode as the weight of the trauma and danger found around every corner bears down on our heroes. Just the way I like it. Let's talk about feelings!

Firstly, we have Nancy reading Susan the riot act for what happened in the battle with Malorax. Though the Naturalist Society has faded in and out of prominence...

Guffawsoleum: Lakeshore - Part 16 - Awoogah

Thanks so much for joining us for yet another Guffawsoleum! This week's a little heftier as we spend, among other conversations, a lot of time dwelling on how exactly to get back home.

Transcript attached

DM Notes: Lakeshore 16

Hello Patrons! As we barrel toward the end of Lakeshore, I feel like I shouldn't say too much! So much of my notes and thoughts and sprinting ahead toward the endgame of the campaign, and I don't want to spoil anything or give too much away. Here's a bit of what I can tell you:

We're starting to get into the episodes recorded in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic. Recording like this was ...

Guffaws: Lakeshore 15: Smooth SpongeBob Subs my OnlyFoes

We're perfectly normal!

DM Notes: Lakeshore 15

Ho, patrons! I was going to type "hi", but I typed the wrong word, and now I feel like an old-timey British safari leader. Let's go with it for now.

Episode 15 is upon us! First, I want to talk about the title. I didn't mention the titles much in these posts in the earlier episodes of Lakeshore, largely because Jorie and Jillian had banked a list of song titles that we were choosing from,...

Nox - A Playlist

Art by Jorie (Kitty on Lakeshore)

As we wrap up celebrating Many Realms' first birthday, Jillian brings you the final playlist: Nox! 

Listen: https://spoti.fi/2OT5cFM

The other playlists

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Guffawsoleum: Lakeshore 14: Slumbies!

Hey everyone!  Welcome once again to the Guffawsoleum where wordplay is runs rampant and saying "Good to be here" is harder than you might think.

Have fun and see you in two weeks!

Transcript attached

DM Notes: Lakeshore 14

Hello, esteemed patrons!

Jesse here, with another quick peek behind the curtain at the making of Many Realms. Let's jump right in, shall we?

For this episode's notes, I want to talk about some of the ideas I had for Lakeshore that didn't end up panning out, because several of them got reworked in this episode. Of course, it's not a problem that these ideas changed shape--Urban Shado...

DM Notes: Lakeshore 13

Here are some quick notes and fun facts about this episode of Lakeshore:

-The title of this episode comes from a 1970 Van Morrison song. Each Lakeshore episode is named after a song popular between the 1920s and 1940s--we had to make an exception for this song, which is quite jazzy, and fits the episode pe...