We all need to get weird every once in a while. Back Absurdia now!

As someone who has been constantly writing worlds since I was about 7 or 8 years old, this is the best compliment I could possibly receive. 🥲

If you’re a #TTRPG creator with a Patreon page, please do this survey and state that you’re opposed to the use of AI! We need to nip this in the bud ASAP. The survey takes 2 minutes and will hopefully have a big impact if enough of us submit strongly negative opinions!

OOPS! This is embarrassing. Yesterday was our 5 YEAR Pod anniversary! 🦐🎉 Thank you all so much for listening over the years, we can't wait to share even more games and stories with you in the future!

PATRONS! Tune in as three *unconventional* treasure seekers try to outbid one another and stake their claim on a menagerie of mysterious, possibly even lucrative (?) storage containers. Will the cream rise to the top? Or will they crash out and close up shop? www.patreon.com/posts/off-ho...

Incredibly excited to announce that Absurdia, my TTRPG love letter to classic and contemporary works of absurdism like Welcome to Night Vale, Alice in Wonderland, and Gravity Falls, is coming to Backerkit this fall! Subvert normalcy. Embrace chaos. Make it weird. Follow today 👁️ bit.ly/46upHBR

Happy Birthday to the brilliant and talented @maudlingames.com! 🦐🎉

Celebrating our CRIT awards nomination, two years since our campaign and a year since release: Triangle Agency is on sale for the first time! This month, you can get the Triangle Agency core rulebook for only $45! That's 25% off normal price. shop.hauntedtable.games/products/tri...

Oh gosh, I have been nominated for a CRIT award. If you want, you can vote for me or for one of these other lovely humans at the link below! Or you can just affectionately tease me about not knowing Pathfinder 1e's mechanics, like my beloved @badheroescast.com cast ❤️

Let’s do a Star War! I’m excited for this one.

This pic of me goes HARD.

@baddiebards.bsky.social is truly our collective dream come true. We pour a lot of love into what we do, the stories we tell. Please consider nominating us for the following categories! 💜🧡 🧵 1/3

It’s #CritAwards season! We made some rad stuff this past year and would love if folks would consider nominating us for any or all of the categories below 👁️ Nominations can be submitted here! forms.gle/edQebZun5J6T...

Howdy Y’all! Nominate all your favorite pod friends for all these great awards. I’ll be reposting a bunch of these from shows that I know and love. I’m particularly proud of my voice work for Joe Crumb and his song “The Skywaymen” so please consider us for best lyrical song!

CRIT Award nominations are open! We humbly present some of the categories that Bad Heroes is eligible for 🐍 www.critawards.org

This is gonna be GREAT

Guys you should listen to shrimp and crits, it’s so great. It totally won’t have you crying over characters at 5 in the morning

S3 E1 - The Case of the White Knight Welcome to Arborealis, a dense urban jungle full of secrets and schemes. Through its streets flows the Mist: an otherworldly force that keeps Sleepers unaware of the awakened Rifts that walk amongst them. Listen here! 🕵️ monsterhour.podbean.com/e/s3-e1-the-...

So proud of this episode. You’re missing out if you aren’t listening to Riptide.

Fuck Elon Musk

From the tourist filled beaches of Gullacochica! to the looming sky cities of Dania. From the barren moons of Arcadia to the surreal attractions of Whimsy World, thanks for traveling with us! Thank you from the bottom of our shrimpy hearts for downloading our show 150,000 times! 🎉🦐

The Great Monster Make-Off is now on Youtube! (Early 2024) 3 Keepers (GMs) from popular actual play podcasts competed against each other to receive praise from the Monster Daddy himself—Michael Sands, creator of the TTRPG Monster of the Week. Great British Bake Off meets MotW youtu.be/MlMUQ829BF4

If you want to get your favorite podcasts a gift for the holidays at no cost to you, write a review and rate the shows you love on the podcatcher of your choice!

The finale of Starsick is now available on Youtube! Our protagonists return to Pillory, New England as successful adults, for their 10 year high school reunion. What they didn't expect—but the audience surely did—is to be reunited with the insidious Yonder... youtu.be/zYPO1cMDebM

Riptide - Episode 3 “Mistified” Is out now! Exclusively on Patreon. Dark waters and foggy seas make fishing a life or death situation for the new trawlers.

A Monstrous Special has escaped the vault! A 2-Part team-up from our Patreon, now on your main feeds. Four Monstrous Hunters from separate worlds unite to stay alive on a mysterious island filled with dense jungles and dangerous traps. Join Ray Ray, Tammy Jo, Alvin, and Slappy Pete as they play:

I just had an ADD moment where I was trying to remember the next thing on my todo list was… It was to relax. 🥲 Hey y’all… don’t forget to find time to relax even if it’s just a few minutes.

Hello New Followers, Listeners, and Friends! We are Shrimp and Crits, and we tell stories!🍤📖 We're the Comedy Actual Play Podcast with a Southern Twist. We tell Scary stories We tell Wholesome stories We tell Queer stories We tell Love stories We tell Sci-fi stories We tell Fantasy stories

RIPTIDE Episode 2 releases this week exclusively on Patreon. Our trawlers struggle to come to terms with what lies just beneath the surface. 🌊

I’m very excited for this! One of my favorite theme songs and cover arts I’ve done.

So great to see y’all here! Everyone leaving X and coming over to Bluesky is such a relief. Our feeds are fresh and free of the Ai slop and bot garbage that was collecting over there. We’re Shrimp and Crits, and we’re here to send all the southern fried ttrpg goodness to your ear holes. 🍤💚

Hey hi howdy! I’m gonna do one of those “lots of folks are moving to Bluesky” posts! My name is Ian! I produce Shrimp and Crits, the most southern fried actual play podcast you can get your ears on. I also do freelance podcast editing, ttrpg design and I make killer theme songs! Let’s be pals 🦐

I have two mysteries in this awesome Monster of the Week #TTRPG bundle! 😱 drivethrurpg.com/en/product/4... Let Us Entertain You - book of 4 entertaining mysteries Mermaid Bay - a reverse Little Mermaid

Super stoked for my friends in Monster Hour. I learned a lot about audio editing AND being a great GM from working on this season. Happy finale day! Big congrats, y’all.

This great free game by my friends @maudlingames.com and @itscap.bsky.social would pair well with @evilhat.bsky.social's great May the Fourth offerings. Get your Star Wars RPG freak on!

The full update is LIVE for Revenge of the 5th! Rule updates, typo fixes, a new basic move “Investigations,” and my last two playbooks join yesterday’s four new ones. I’ll tell you about the new playbooks below!

Gifs on Bluesky let’s goooooooooo

Hey hey. Get a bunch of cool games and support the Rainbow Violence Prevention Network. A couple of my games are on there too! Just a few days left 💙

🕵️‍♂️🎥

New Shrimp and Crits miniarc coming 2/26/24 🐿️🦬🗡️

Come join the party. Spoiler alert, I’ll be playing your favorite country catfish. 🎣

Whelp, I guess we all have to move to Burlington, USA.

I know we have a lot of goofy bits about being hungry for stars, but it really is the best feeling to get new reviews. This one from Vanessa is just the nicest thing in the whole world. 🥹

Some absolutely Wyld 30-Second Doodle fanart pieces from Lemon on Discord. Love these takes on our Season 1 characters. Thank you so much!🍤🫂🍋

Hello ttrpg folks! Drop me your recommendations for artists who make great twitch overlays. Feel free to drop your own stuff. 👀🍤

Look, it’s not my fault cathedrals have excellent acoustics for beatboxing.

Whoops I’m planning 4 campaigns at once.

This week's episode features the incredible @maudlingames.com discussing whether ugly privilege exists and if it intersects with the timeless appeal of actor Paul Giamatti. They also discuss the medical implications of whale milk and "The Taylor Swift Lifestyle" www.podbean.com/ew/pb-teyp7-...

Today, a stranger told me I look like I’m in a band. I said “I’m retired”

I had so much fun recording this one. 😂