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The Haunting of Hollybrook - Part 1 | 13 Omens Actual Play | Is This Your First Time?

Ep. 34
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Welcome to the first episode of IS THIS YOUR FIRST TIME?, our new show where we get authors to try out a new TTRPG system every week.


On this first episode, we are playing Paizo's new horror game, 13 Omens!


Hollybrook Inn has been abandoned for the last 20 years after a grisly series of murders by the owner shut it down. Which makes it perfect fodder for the paranormal investigative crew, The Ghost Stormers, to investigate. But will they find out the truth - or die trying?


Cast:

Rhiannon Grist (Author of Home Sick) as Holly Hollybrook

Cailean Steed (Author of Home) as Sam Green

Anna Stephens (Author of The Godblind trilogy) as Frank 'Panda' McGee

Rafael Torrubia (Author of The Shipwright and The Shroudweaver) as Cassie Callisto

With Marco Rinaldi as The Host


Narrative Damage is the TTRPG show that asks authors to put down their pens, pick up the dice and tell stories together.


Check out our other actual plays in a variety of systems on the channel now, along with interviews with creators from the TTRPG world. Visit our website to catch all our episodes.


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