Public Access is coming to Kickstarter March 17th!
In this special podcast episode, Matt and Jason do a deep dive on Public Access—what it is, how it works, and how this edition differs from the version released in 2023. Then, Jason gets very personal talking about the game's inspirations. Finally, Matt and Jason run down what folks can expect in the Kickstarter campaign itself.
Check out the campaign here!
26 Aug 2025
The Stygian Garden of Abelia Prem
The Basic Crawl
00:00:21 - Overview
00:03:19 - How have we used this in our games?
00:03:44 - Things we liked about this adventure
00:14:23 - Questions we had about this adventure
00:18:03 - Chain Lightning Round
The Expert Delve
00:21:30 - Gardens!
Companion Adventures
00:37:08 - Books
The Secret Garden (https://www.gutenberg.org/files/17396/17396-h/17396-h.htm) by Frances Hodgson Burnett (1911)
The Only One Left by Riley Sager (2023)
Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
00:38:43 - Location
The Duchess of Northumberland’s Poison Garden (https://www.alnwickgarden.com/the-garden/poison-garden/)
00:39:15 - Film
The Exterminating Angel (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0056732/) (1962) dir. Luis Buñuel
Hang out with us on Discord:
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https://discord.gg/hnkRcskWZk (https://discord.gg/hnkRcskWZk) (Tom)
15 Jul 2025TRANSCRIPT
Corruption of the Blood God
The Basic Crawl
00:00:21 - Overview
00:04:22 - How have we used this in our games?
00:06:52 - Things we liked about this adventure
00:21:42 - Questions we had about this adventure
00:24:27 - Chain Lightning Round
The Expert Delve
00:27:41 - Bodies of evidence.
Companion Adventures
00:44:38 - Reading
00:45:09 - Music
00:45:45 - RPGs
https://fulachtfiadh.bandcamp.com/ (https://fulachtfiadh.bandcamp.com/)
Corruption of the Blood God
https://www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/506610/corruption-of-the-blood-god
Literature
The Ulster Cycle: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ulster_Cycle#Texts_in_translation
Music
Fulacht Fiadh: https://fulachtfiadh.bandcamp.com/ (https://fulachtfiadh.bandcamp.com/)
Games
Circle of Wolves: https://blog.trilemma.com/2014/07/the-circle-of-wolves.html
Against the Cult of the Reptile God: https://www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/17056/n1-against-the-cult-of-the-reptile-god-1e
The Black Wyrm of Brandonsford: https://www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/327744/the-black-wyrm-of-brandonsford
The Madness of Cú Chulainn: https://legacy.drivethrurpg.com/product/237664/Codex--Madness-May-2017
Discord
https://discord.gg/K5myJQc4Bc (https://discord.gg/K5myJQc4Bc) (Jason)
https://discord.gg/hnkRcskWZk (https://discord.gg/hnkRcskWZk) (Tom)
Inside a recent episode
Public Access RPG Kickstarter Special
Published 13 Mar 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] And you know, I asked myself that all the time, listeners, why didn't I just write it this way to begin with? You know, you learn things about your game as you go. So that's kind of the biggest change. There are also lots of just little, you know, kind of tightening things up here and there, changing some of the kind of the flow of the narrative and making the overall experience a much more cinematic in nature, I guess. But that's the big, big change is kind of the larger mystery structure. And public access is a game that's designed to be run to its conclusion. It's designed to end. It's not supposed to be a lack of ongoing campaign. […]
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