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Thin Air

Ray J. Lonsdale

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The Thin Air Podcast is an episodic anthology of short stories, novellas and poems, including fantasy, science fiction, suspense, thrillers and the macabre. Featuring tales penned and narrated by Lonsdale, this program could be described as a fascinating blend of audiobook and modern-day old-time radio. Episodes are presented as dramatic readings with background sound F/X and original music. The premiere episode, titled “The Uncanny Valley of the Shadow,” is the opening chapter, kicking off ...
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Show Notes To tide us over til our next one-shot, here's a bonus episode where our host and GM Fiona interviews Matthew Tyler-Jones and David Semark, cohosts of the Effekt Podcast and lead designers on the upcoming game, Tales of the Old West. Tales of the Old West takes players to the Wild West of the 1870s, in a gritty historical tabletop rolepla…
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Jacob Barlowe has a lot on his mind these days as he makes his way down a rain-soaked sidewalk leading to his psychologists’s office. Stress at work and a series of excruciating migraine headaches have prompted his doctor to recommend extended therapy in the hope that it will help to uncover the root cause. Unfortunately for mister Barlow and subse…
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Content Warnings/Trigger Warnings: Death, dying and variations there upon, feelings of being lost and loneliness, memory loss, mentions of gambling. Show Notes This week, Fiona is playing The Last Tea Shop, a solo journaling game about tea and conversation. Written by Spring Villager, The Last Tea Shop lets players run a tea shop on the border of t…
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Bound for the raucous frontier town of Tombstone, Arizona, to play a series of engagements at the notorious Birdcage Theater, famed actress Ezmarelda Culpepper boards a stagecoach hoping this will turn out to be the last of her less than desirable bookings. What she doesn’t realize yet is that the Tombstone Express will be, by necessarily, rerouted…
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Show Notes To tide us over til our next one-shot, here's a bonus episode where our host and GM Fiona interviews game designer Yvris Burke of Button Kin Games. Established in 2020, Button Kin Games is an independent TTRPG publisher based in Manchester and home to whimsical and strange TTRPGs with unusual themes, and a smattering of D&D 5e content. D…
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Show Notes This week, Fiona tries her hand at building her very own setting prompt by prompt, using Angeline Trevena’s ‘30 Days of Worldbuilding: An Author’s Step-by-Step Guide to Building Fictional Worlds’. Overwhelmed by creating fantasy worlds? Lost in your world? Unsure where to go next? 30 Days of Worldbuilding breaks the task into manageable …
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Show Notes This week, Fiona tries her hand at building her very own setting prompt by prompt, using Angeline Trevena’s ‘30 Days of Worldbuilding: An Author’s Step-by-Step Guide to Building Fictional Worlds’. Overwhelmed by creating fantasy worlds? Lost in your world? Unsure where to go next? 30 Days of Worldbuilding breaks the task into manageable …
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Show Notes This week, Fiona tries her hand at building her very own setting prompt by prompt, using Angeline Trevena’s ‘30 Days of Worldbuilding: An Author’s Step-by-Step Guide to Building Fictional Worlds’. Overwhelmed by creating fantasy worlds? Lost in your world? Unsure where to go next? 30 Days of Worldbuilding breaks the task into manageable …
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Show Notes This week, Fiona tries her hand at building her very own setting prompt by prompt, using Angeline Trevena’s ‘30 Days of Worldbuilding: An Author’s Step-by-Step Guide to Building Fictional Worlds’. Overwhelmed by creating fantasy worlds? Lost in your world? Unsure where to go next? 30 Days of Worldbuilding breaks the task into manageable …
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Writer, director and producer of the Thin Air Podcast, RJ Lonsdale, joins WAIR talkshow host Clayton Lomax for a candid discussion of the show. Get the inside scoop about the origin of Thin Air and many of the episodes that are currently streaming. In addition to the chat with Lonsdale, you can also catch an exclusive tale that will only air on thi…
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Show Notes This week, Fiona tries her hand at building her very own setting prompt by prompt, using Angeline Trevena’s ‘30 Days of Worldbuilding: An Author’s Step-by-Step Guide to Building Fictional Worlds’. Overwhelmed by creating fantasy worlds? Lost in your world? Unsure where to go next? 30 Days of Worldbuilding breaks the task into manageable …
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Show Notes To tide us over til our next one-shot, here's a bonus episode where our host and GM Fiona interviews Sam Leigh, award-winning game designer of Anamnesis and the upcoming solo rpg: Death of The Author. Sam (She/They) is an award-winning tabletop game designer from Virginia and the owner of Blinking Birch Games. As well as designing their …
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A veil of darkness is falling upon the Queen’s Imperium. As a frightening series of events start to unfold across the boundless reaches of the cosmos, none other than Queen Ophelia Droxine Oberon herself rockets off from Imperious Prime to investigate, accompanied by Captain Nix Orlan, long-time Aeronaut to the royal family. One by one, the stars a…
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Show Notes This week, Fiona tries her hand at building her very own setting prompt by prompt, using Angeline Trevena’s ‘30 Days of Worldbuilding: An Author’s Step-by-Step Guide to Building Fictional Worlds’. Overwhelmed by creating fantasy worlds? Lost in your world? Unsure where to go next? 30 Days of Worldbuilding breaks the task into manageable …
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The hosts of The DM's Book Club proudly bring you a new limited series, The DM's Travel Bookclub: A Guide to The Inner Planes! In each episode, we'll explore the Inner Planes of Existence as outlined in the Great Wheel cosmology in the roleplaying game, Dungeons & Dragons. Join us, Fiona and Hamilton on this adventure of discovery! Consider using o…
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Show Notes To tide us over til our next one-shot, here's a bonus episode where our host and GM Fiona interviews Chris Bissette, award winning game designer, writer and musican. Chris has written for games like Pathfinder 2, Fallout, Hunter: The Reckoning, and cy_borg. They are best known for their indie breakout solo journalling The Wretched, which…
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Show Notes To tide us over til our next one-shot, here's a bonus episode where our host and GM Fiona interviews Taylor Navarro, the TTRPG game designer, writer, editor and project manager. Taylor's latest TTRPG project, 'Not Yet: A Romantic TTRPG Duet', has players take on the roles of two characters fated to meet but just missing one another—or no…
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Show Notes To tide us over til our next one-shot, here's a bonus episode where our host and GM Fiona interviews Nick Munro Turner, a Freelance Outdoor Activity Instructor, journalist, and the game designer behind the upcoming TTRPGs games Lost in the Jungle and Rogue Octopus Escapes! Check out Nick running his game, Rogue Octopus Escapes, on the Sc…
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Show Notes To tide us over til our next one-shot, here's a bonus episode where our host and GM Fiona interviews game designer Laurie O'Connel, the creator behind Lichcraft, Hieronymus, and the upcoming Death Game! Laurie’s TTRPG work covers a wide, wide range subjects, from the ‘weird’ to the ‘unsettling’. His latest project, Death Game is a narrat…
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Show Notes To tide us over til our next one-shot, here's a bonus episode where our host and GM Fiona interviews Dr Gary Colman, one of the Trustees of Game Therapy UK, an innovative charity set up to promote Therapeutic Gaming in the UK for the public benefit. Game Therapy UK provides innovative, evidence-based therapeutic games to groups at risk o…
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Show Notes To tide us over til our next one-shot, here's a bonus episode where our host and GM Fiona interviews Daniel Hand aka The RPG Therapist. Daniel is an experienced counselor who offers integrative counselling and ‘Quest’ (RPG/story-based) therapy. RPG Therapy uses storytelling (and dice!) to help predominately younger clients explore their …
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Long Cold Night, a classic tale of maritime intrigue and adventure by author Allan Vaughan Elston, comes vividly to life, here on RJ Lonsdale’s Thin Air Podcast Anthology. Lost and run aground somewhere in the grim arctic darkness, all that remain of the whaling vessel Norwhaal’s crew are Cabin Boy David Jones and four prisoners that had been locke…
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Content Warnings/Trigger Warnings: Folkhorror themes, violence, disappearances, child endangerment, supernatural horror, 1970s attitudes. Show Notes This week, Fiona is joined by Pip, James, Adam and Rhys for ‘Solemn Vale’, a narrative-driven storytelling game where players tell abhorrent tales of horror and the supernatural. Published by Dirty Vor…
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Content Warnings/Trigger Warnings: Folkhorror themes, violence, disappearances, child endangerment, supernatural horror, 1970s attitudes. Show Notes This week, Fiona is joined by Pip, James, Adam and Rhys for ‘Solemn Vale’, a narrative-driven storytelling game where players tell abhorrent tales of horror and the supernatural. Published by Dirty Vor…
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The plot thickens. Thin Air Radio broadcast newsman Chet Huxley continues his “Travelogue to Invasion” just outside the odd little town of Point Pleasant, West Virginia, that infamous point on his star map known in the annals of UFO folklore for a flap of flying saucer, men in black and, of course, legendary Mothman encounters. What will he discove…
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Show Notes This week, Fiona is joined by Duste and Catrina and extra special guest GM Jess Levine for 'Going Rogue 2e', a GM-Less Anti-Fascist RPG about war, rebellion, and making the ultimate sacrifice. Some dedicate their life to the cause… One day, you will dedicate everything. Those who dream of a better world know one simple, terrible fact: no…
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Show Notes This week, Fiona is joined by Duste and Catrina and extra special guest GM Jess Levine for 'Going Rogue 2e', a GM-Less Anti-Fascist RPG about war, rebellion, and making the ultimate sacrifice. Some dedicate their life to the cause… One day, you will dedicate everything. Those who dream of a better world know one simple, terrible fact: no…
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Alister Fairfax has received and is in the process of responding to a dire correspondence from his long, lost love, Matilda Escher. What dark destiny awaits his arrival and what strange manifestation of upended reality will he encounter as he passes through a broken pane of glass to save Miss Escher from cruel fate? Travel along and discover for yo…
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Show Notes This week, Fiona is joined by Duste and Catrina and extra special guest GM Jess Levine for 'Going Rogue 2e', a GM-Less Anti-Fascist RPG about war, rebellion, and making the ultimate sacrifice. Some dedicate their life to the cause… One day, you will dedicate everything. Those who dream of a better world know one simple, terrible fact: no…
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