Recent Videos & Streams
Oops! All Strange Friends - OOC Chat
In This World - Captive Audience
Session Nine - The Sunset Line
A Family of Blades - The Fifth Last Job
Session Eight - The Scholar and the Voice
Recent Videos & Streams
Current Series:
Valloward
Past Series:
Fractal Spire
The Case of the Cindered Seal
Splendour & Shadow
One-Shots
A Land Once Magic - Gutterwick
Valloward
Worldbuilding with Ex Novo
Session Zero - Content and Tone Discussion, Coterie Creation
Session One - Finishing Coterie Creation and Founder’s Day
Valour Isle is the jewel of its archipelago, a land with unique magic and gifted with bountiful crops - including a fruit that bears oracular power. Abandoned by its original inhabitants, veterans of a far-off war settled here and built Valour’s Reward.
Centuries later, six houses vie for ultimate control of this city like no other, now known as Valloward.
A new coterie rises within House Vorster, bastions of honor and tradition.
These retainers will need all of their skill, power, and luck to pursue the house's ambitions as well as their own secret desires.
Playing Court of Blades by A Couple of Drakes. A Couple of Drakes provided some promotional material and art assets for this campaign.
Starring Marie Bilodeau, Premee Mohamed, Rhiannon Held, Gregory A. Wilson, and Brandon O'Brien, with Dancing Master Michael R. Underwood.
Guest Star - Rhiannon Held
Session Two - The Matter of the Eels
Session Three - Downtime and Displacement
GM Prep and Worldbuilding Streams
Worldbuilding - Magic and Mysteries with Brandon O’Brien
GM Turn #1 - With A Couple of Drakes
Patrons at Patreon.com/speculate get access to even more behind-the-scenes videos with more worldbuilding and GM prep.
Session Four - Veteran’s Rest
Session Five - Graves and Groves
Session Six - The Coming Storm
Session Eight - The Scholar and the Voice
Session Nine - The Sunset Line
Session Seven - The Revenant
Fractal Spire
Session Zero - Series and Character Creation
Episode 1: The Focused Eye, Pt. 1
Episode 1: The Focused Eye, Pt. 2
Series now complete!
In a dystopian world dominated by looming spires and media saturation, a sentient dream of a forgotten past hatches a conspiracy to shatter the barrier between the
waking world and the dream. After their leader's mysterious disappearance, four Dream Knights investigate the conspiracy and fight to preserve
the dreaming realm as an escape and inspiration.
Using the In a Maze of Dreams playset of Girl by Moonlight, a game by Andrew Gillis, forthcoming from Evil Hat Productions. This campaign was sponsored by Evil Hat.
Starring The Strange Friends - Jeoi Gawain Lin, Iori Kusano, Valerie Valdes, and Michael R. Underwood, with Stage Manager Brandon O’Brien
Episode 1: The Focused Eye, Pt. 3
Episode 2: The Royal Guard, Pt. 1
Episode 2: The Royal Guard, Pt . 2
Episode 2: The Royal Guard, Pt. 3
Episode 3: The Sealed Path, Pt. 1
Episode 3: The Sealed Path, Pt. 2
Episode 3: The Sealed Path, Pt. 3
Episode 4: The Distorted Lens, Pt. 1
Discussion with Girl by Moonlight designer Andrew Gillis
Episode 4: The Distorted Lens, Pt. 2 (Series Finale)
Past Series
Session One
Session Two
Session Three
Four denizens of Duskwall are brought together for the funeral of society darling Runa Caspar. But questions about her mysterious death put them all at the center of an ever-unfolding plot that could shake the very foundations of the city.
Playing Blades in the Dark by John Harper. Using the Fugitives crewsheet by Brandon O’Brien.
Featuring the debut of The Strange Friends crew -
Jeoi Gawain Lin, Iori Kusano, Valerie Valdes, Michael R. Underwood, and Stage Manager Brandon O’Brien.
Session Four
The Case of
the Cindered Seal
The Case of the Cindered Seal Post-Mortem
Session Five
Session Six
Session Seven
Session Eight
Session Nine
Session Ten
Session Eleven
Session Twelve
Session Thirteen
Session Fourteen
Session Fifteen
Session Sixteen
Session Seventeen
Session Session Eighteen
Session Nineteen
Session Twenty
Episode One
Episode Two
Episode Three
Two years ago, Maedoc Lolaire turned against his own family and threw the kingdom of Crobhan into civil war. Along with the church that named Splendour Ciaran a heretic for their veneration of gods long-forgotten, Maedoc bound the great houses to his will and drove out his own blood. Now Maedoc sits the throne and consolidates power through an alliance with the calculating House Gearr.
The Rebel Crown Ciaran has returned from exile to seek both retribution and vindication. They will see Maedoc deposed, his crimes revealed, and the old gods restored to their rightful place.
Playing Rebel Crown by Michael Dunn-O’Connor
Starring Alex Acks, DongWon Song, Gregory A. Wilson, and Brandon O’Brien with GM Mike Underwood
Episode Four
Splendour & Shadow
Episode Five
Episode Six
Episode Seven
Star Wars: Echoes of Empire [Scum & Villainy]
Star Wars: After Alderaan [Scum & Villainy] Session Zero (Unfinished Series)
Mask of Mirrors one-shot [Blades in the Dark]
Here’s the home for all of Speculate’s one-shots, miniseries, special event games, and the like!
Oops! All Strange Friends [OOC Chat]
Captive Audience [In This World]
The Fifth Last Job [A Family of Blades]
Gutterwick [A Land Once Magic]
Pizza Party [Slugblaster]
Folktales of Gristwood ft. Skiffy & Fanty [D&D 5e]
One-Shots
Blades in the Deep ft. GM Iori Kusano [Blades in the Dark]
Star Wars: A Hidden Hope [Scum & Villainy]
Porter’s Day Special 2022 [Lasers & Feelings]
Like a Lighthouse [Boy Problems]