why we care about stories…
How do stories and systems intersect and influence each other?
This push and pull offers us a chance to deepen our understanding and appreciation of how writing and role-playing games connect and co-evolve.
RPGs offer a space for shared storytelling and the creation of immersive worlds, as modern myths.
Whether you’re a veteran or new to the scene, we invite you to join us.
the modern mythology podcast
What can a collaborative approach teach us about building compelling characters?
Through conversations and one shot Actual-play episodes, we explore how the tools we use shape the stories we tell, whether those tools are implicit or explicit.
This is just the beginning—there’s much more to come...
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The fallen cycle mythos fiction podcast
Forgotten, forgetful gods (of a sort) walk among us.
Listen to some of their stories…
The Fallen Cycle is created by James Curcio and a rotating team of collaborators over the years. This transmedia project spans illustrated novels, comics, audio fiction, and RPGs.
As independent wholes, they can be experienced in any order. However, the podcast is best listened to sequentially.
narrative machines theory podcast
A podcast on memetics, myth and propaganda: how our narratives define the limits of our political and personal identity, how any era of civilization may be consigned to myth just as it was defined by it.
Drawing on over a decade of interdisciplinary research, this podcast examines how ideas spread through the internet, shaping perceptions, reshaping societal norms, and constructing identities and politics—often without conscious awareness.