Narrative Damage is a TTRPG podcast hosted by Nella and Lucio—two players with too many characters, too many campaigns, and a truly unreasonable amount of emotional investment in imaginary people.
We’re talking character creation, chaotic table moments, campaign updates, weird questions, player and character interviews, and all the ways TTRPGs manage to cause very real emotional damage.
Come for the dice. Stay for the lore, questionable decisions, and narrative damage.
Episode 5: Meet the Character — The Dante Interview
This week, we’re doing something a little different.
No character breakdown. No behind-the-scenes discussion. We’re stepping directly into the World of Darkness.
Dante, Brujah and Hound of London, has been summoned for an interview with two Archons. What follows is an entirely in-character interrogation about his loyalty, his usefulness to the Camarilla, and exactly where he stands as London becomes increasingly complicated.
Questions are asked. Answers are judged. And somewhere in the middle of it all, Dante has to prove that keeping him around is worth the trouble.
Welcome to Narrative Damage.
This time, we’re not talking about the story.
We’re playing it.
11 Oct 2026
Month of Darkness Day 10: Awakened
For Day 10, Nella shares a letter written by Fae to her sire, Lucien Devereux.
After leaving home for London, Fae finds herself doing something unfamiliar: building a life beyond Lucien and House Devereux. But even as she begins to grow on her own, her love, loyalty, and devotion to her sire remain deeply rooted.
For Fae, awakening doesn’t mean letting go.
It means discovering that perhaps she can grow beyond the garden she came from without loving it any less.
This is “Awakened.”
10 Oct 2026
Month of Darkness Day 9: The First Betrayal
Prompt: The First Betrayal Featured Character: Vanessa Roux World: Vampire: The Masquerade
For Day Nine of the Month of Darkness Challenge, Nella steps into the final night of Vanessa Roux’s mortal life.
At twenty-two, Vanessa was preparing to return home to Paris to be named French Artist of the Year. Her bags were packed, her speech was ready, and her fiancé Lucien was supposed to be beside her.
Instead, the man she planned to spend her life with decided forever wasn’t long enough.
Vanessa never made it to Paris.
She woke instead to discover her fiancé had become her sire.
Sometimes the first betrayal comes from the person you trusted with your future.
9 Oct 2026
#MonthOfDarkness Day 8: No One Will Believe You.
:When secrets are kept, some will do everything they can to keep that hidden.
For day 8 of the Month of Darkness Challenge, a Salubri's secret has been exposed. As someone who has always kept what he is secret, Theo will do anything to ensure no one remembers he's Salubri.
Even when its a Fledgling.
This is No One Will Believe You.
8 Oct 2026
#MonthOfDarkness Day 7: What Keeps You Here?
Prompt: What Keeps You Here? Featured Character: Fae World: Vampire: The Masquerade
For Day Seven of the Month of Darkness Challenge, Nella returns to the story of Fae, her French-Caribbean Toreador whose relationship with her sire, Lucien Devereux, has shaped nearly a century of her existence.
Before Lucien Embraced her, Fae spent nineteen years as his ghoul. He has been her protector, her lover, her sire, and the center of a Blood Bond that makes separating love from devotion, possession, and supernatural compulsion almost impossible.
But Damien, Fae’s own ghoul, sees their relationship from the outside.
After witnessing another one of Lucien’s rages, Damien holds Fae as she retreats to the safety of her studio. This time, he finally asks the question neither of them can ignore anymore:
What keeps you here?
For one brief moment, Fae allows herself to consider the answer. She considers the fear. The pain. The decades spent returning to Lucien no matter what happens between them.
She even considers what leaving might mean.
Then there’s a knock at the door.
And Lucien smiles at her.
Because sometimes knowing you’re trapped isn’t the same thing as being able to leave.
And sometimes the person hurting you is still the person you desperately want to run home to.
7 Oct 2026
#MonthOfDarkness Day 6: A Dream Worth Dying For
Sometimes a dream seems unattainable.
For day Six of the Month of Darkness Challenge, Lucio brings forth the memory of the Tremere Kindred Rune from when he was still Human.
While one person may believe a Dream can be achieved, to another it may be Death.
This is A Dream Worth Dying For
6 Oct 2026
#MonthOfDarkness Day 5: Reality is Negotiable
What is reality?
For Day Five of the Month of Darkness Challenge, Lucio brings us into the edited memories of the Malkavian Lukas.
Pages are erased, changed, and replaced all together.
This is Reality of Negotiable
5 Oct 2026
#MonthOfDarkness Day 4: Song of Rage
Prompt: Song of Rage Featured Characters: Serin, Lukas, Fae & Astra World: Vampire: The Masquerade
For Day Four of the Month of Darkness Challenge, Nella and Lucio are giving four of their Vampire: The Masquerade characters a chance to be angry.
Because rage doesn’t always scream.
Sometimes it burns hot and reckless. Sometimes it waits quietly beneath the surface. Sometimes it wears a beautiful smile, follows every rule, and patiently waits for someone to finally push too far.
Through a series of short rhymes, Serin, Lukas, Fae, and Astra each reveal a little of what lives underneath.
Different wounds. Different warnings. Different monsters.
But the same rage.
4 Oct 2026
Episode 4: Bad Decisions Make Better Stories. We Knew Better. We Did It Anyway.
We could’ve made the smart choice.
We did not.
This week, Nella and Lucio are talking about the TTRPG decisions we knew were terrible and made anyway. From ignoring obvious red flags to trusting the WRONG person, we’re unpacking the bad character choices that somehow became some of our favorite stories.
Expect terrible judgment, questionable plans, consequences we absolutely saw coming, and at least one moment of “I knew this was a bad idea when I did it.”
Welcome to Narrative Damage. We’ve been victimized by our own decisions again.
4 Oct 2026
#MonthOfDarkness Day 3: The Monster You Love
Prompt: The Monster I Love
Featured Character: Fae
World: Vampire: The Masquerade
For Day Three of the Month of Darkness Challenge, Nella returns to the past of one of her Vampire: The Masquerade characters: Fae.
Long before London, Fae lived beneath the watchful eye of her sire, Lucien Devereux, a Toreador elder who could be impossibly gentle with his favorite creation and utterly monstrous to anyone he believed had wronged her.
Tonight begins like so many nights in the Devereux household: classical music, charcoal against paper, Sebastian nearby, and Lucien’s hand gently stroking through Fae’s hair.
Then someone from the previous night’s Elysium arrives at their door.
Someone who had cornered Fae when she was alone.
Fae knows exactly what Lucien is.
Because sometimes the monster you should fear most...
is the monster you love.
3 Oct 2026
#MonthOfDarkness Day 2: A Feast for the Damned
Prompt: A Feast for the Damned Featured Character: Astra World: Vampire: The Masquerade
For Day Two of the Month of Darkness Challenge, Nella steps into the mind of one of her Vampire: The Masquerade characters: Astra.
Astra believes morality, guilt, and religion are chains, and she has every intention of teaching others how to break free from them.
Tonight, with her ghoul Ellia beside her, Astra is on her way to secure an investment for her newest venture: Morrow & Vale.
To the people it attracts, Morrow & Vale will offer liberation. They’ll come believing they’re consuming Astra. Her image. Her body. Her attention. Her love.
But Astra sees people a little differently.
They think they’re coming for the feast.
They don’t realize they’re the dessert.
2 Oct 2026
#MonthOfDarkness Day 1: The World You Left Behind
Month of Darkness Day 1: The World You Left Behind
Prompt: The World You Left Behind Featured Character: Fae World: Vampire: The Masquerade
For Day One of the Month of Darkness Challenge, Nella steps into the memories of one of her Vampire: The Masquerade characters: Joséphine Adélaïde Évelyne Baptiste Devereux, better known as Fae.
Fae is a French-Caribbean Toreador, descendant of Helena, who has spent more than sixty years as a vampire.
But before she was Fae, she was Joséphine.
A daughter. A sister. A mortal woman with a home, a family, and a life she once believed would last.
When an unexpected artistic frenzy pulls an old memory to the surface, Fae finds herself painting something she hasn't allowed herself to truly look at in decades:
The world she left behind.
27 Sept 2026
Episode 3: Meet the Player: The Linken Experience
This week on Narrative Damage, we’re dragging someone else into the hot seat.
Nella and Lucio sit down with Linken to talk about the player behind the characters: how he got into TTRPGs, the characters he can’t let go of, his favorite moments at the table, and—most importantly—the questionable decisions he absolutely needs to answer for.
We’re talking character creation, emotional damage, player habits, favorite campaigns, table dynamics, and the moments that permanently altered his brain chemistry.
Because sometimes the best way to understand a character is to meet the person responsible for all their problems.
Welcome to Narrative Damage.
20 Sept 2026
Episode 2: These Characters Owe Us Therapy
We could’ve been normal about these characters.
We were not.
This week, Nella and Lucio are talking about the TTRPG characters who moved into our brains, changed the locks, and never left. From our own PCs to NPCs we got WAY too attached to, we’re unpacking the fictional people responsible for some very real narrative damage.
Expect character obsession, questionable decisions, emotional attachment, and at least one moment of “why did the GM do this to me?”
Welcome to Narrative Damage. We’ve been victimized by fictional people again.
13 Sept 2026
Welcome to Narrative Damage: Roll for Introductions
Welcome to Narrative Damage—the TTRPG podcast where the dice are unpredictable, the characters make terrible decisions, and the emotional damage is always part of the story.
In our first episode, meet your hosts, Nella and Lucio! We’re sharing how we discovered tabletop role-playing games, the stories and characters that pulled us in, and what inspired us to create this podcast. We’ll also give you a taste of what’s coming, including player interviews, in-character conversations, chaotic campaign stories, weird questions, hot takes, and plenty of narrative damage.
8 Sept 2026
We Rolled a Nat 1 on Scheduling
pisode One of Narrative Damage was supposed to drop this week… and then two TTRPG players attempted to follow a schedule.
Critical failure.
Consider this one last teaser before the real chaos begins. Episode One officially drops Sunday, September 13th.
TTRPG stories, questionable decisions, emotional damage caused by imaginary people, and two hosts who apparently have no proficiency in scheduling.
Welcome to Narrative Damage.
30 Aug 2026
Teaser #2 Will You Roll With Me? 💕 | A Narrative Damage Dating Show Special.
Welcome to the hottest dating show of the ’90s… except nobody’s dating and somehow we ended up talking about TTRPGs.
Meet your hosts: Nella, a fun-loving Aquarius with a weakness for fictional characters, questionable dice decisions, and emotional damage she absolutely brought upon herself—and Lucio, a mysterious Scorpio who has also made the terrible decision to turn his TTRPG opinions into a podcast.
In this special Narrative Damage teaser, we’re introducing ourselves the only reasonable way: like contestants on a wildly dramatic ’90s dating show.
Bad rolls. Character trauma. Unnecessary attachment to NPCs. And two hosts who definitely have opinions.
Welcome to Narrative Damage—a TTRPG podcast about the games we play, the characters we love, and all the emotional damage we collect along the way.
28 Aug 2026
Teaser #1: You’ve Been Warned
Meet Nella and Lucio, the hosts of Narrative Damage—a TTRPG podcast about chaotic campaigns, unforgettable characters, questionable decisions, and the emotional damage we willingly sign up for every time we sit down at the table.
Consider this your official warning.
Welcome to Narrative Damage.
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