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Halfwits & Failed Crits is an Actual Play Podcast where the players' blundering choices and cursed dice are the real big bad evil standing in the way of getting to the end of a campaign! Join GM Jonathan Swenson while the players Kiley Swenson, Laura Rodgers, and Luis Ardila "expand the chaos" in Children of the Spine - A Stars Without Number Podcast. Produced by Halfwit Podcasts.

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01/01/20 • 0 min

Welcome to Halfwits & Failed Crits!
We are an actual play tabletop role playing podcast where Game Master Jonathan tries to get his players to the end of a campaign, even if their cursed dice have other plans.
Season 1 is Worlds Divided, a Dungeons and Dragons 5e campaign where an unlikely group forms a guild, and makes it their mission to upstage the top ranked guild in the nation. This is your standard Sword and Sorcery Fantasy, filled with monsters, quests, and mysterious rifts? You’ll see.
Season 2 is Children of the Spine, a sci-fi space opera where the players are young adults trying to learn who they are, where they are, and what they are going to do with themselves after being rescued from a very Lord of the Flies type situation on an isolated planet. There is also a prequel to season two where they play max level space pirates hunting objects related to the event that brought our Children together.
We also have some bonus episodes such as Backstabbing Beasties, where we play as immortal monsters racing to obtain a chalice that will make us mortal so they can finally rest in peace. We actually recommend that you start listening with Backstabbing Beasties, as it’s self contained, rules light so it’s easy to follow, and the first episode they recorded with great audio equipment and added tons of sound design that will become the norm in Season 2.

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=== CREDITS ===
Game System:
Stars Without Number by Kevin Crawford.
Music:
Crunk Knight - Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
Into the Portal - Wowobit (soundcloud.com/wowobit)
Unholy Knight - Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/4563-unholy-knight)

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02/08/20 • 23 min

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Hey its just your Dungeon Master today with some stories to tell of the personal lives of our precious Syndicate before they became a guild! Since we had a bit of extra upload time, but not enough to push the first actual play episode out, Jonathan reads the backstories that everyone wrote when they created their characters.
Adriel makes a friend, Anya starts The Trial, Melara hides an heirloom, and Nyxtern is a feral child.
Music: Crunk Knight Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
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02/14/20 • 150 min

And we made it! This is our first actual, Actual Play episode! The Syndicate experiments further with a stone they got from otherworldly creatures, and possibly breaking their reality?! A tough act to hide when The First Paradigm always seems to show up when they are least welcome.
Music: Crunk Knight Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
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01/23/20 • 25 min

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Welcome to the first episode of Worlds Divided! In this episode the Halfwits recount the first three games we played before we started recording. After the summaries, you roll and insight check and get a....ten? This was a long time ago but we talk about to games out of character for a moment and give a glimpse into how we started out!
Music: "Crunk Knight" by Kevin MacLeod
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The crew of the Paradise are back at their old stomping grounds and ready to save their family, friends, and enemies! Or are they? Astrid throws a shovel, Kamala hecking hacks a lot, and Mohan finds bathroom donuts. At least one of them is focused on the mission.
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=== CREDITS ===
Game System:
Stars Without Number by Kevin Crawford.
Opening Theme:
Into the Portal - Wowobit ( https://soundcloud.com/wowobit ).
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*Voice over added by Jonathan Swenson
Ending Theme:
On the Shore by Kevin MacLeod
Link: ( https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/4167-on-the-shore ).
License: ( https://filmmusic.io/standard-license ).

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Welcome back to our second summary episode, with only one more to go before we hit the real game!
The Syndicate meets The First Paradigm. Adriel discovers she just doesn't trust happy people, Nyxtern throws everyone, Melara tells a demi-god of knowledge that it's dumb, and Anya nuts at architecture.
Music: "Crunk Knight" by Kevin MacLeod
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Our final summary episode to catch the story up to when we first started recording! The Syndicate takes candy from extra-dimensional strangers, Adriel keeps a secret, Anya has PTSD dreams, Melara is frequently a bird, and Nyxtern kills everything.
Music: Crunk Knight Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
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09/18/20 • 119 min

The Syndicate are locked in battle with the Grand Masters of Hallastead in the final fight to free themselves and their new allies from their imprisonment within the rifts. Can they right the wrongs of the past, or will they be forced to live in the dying rifts!?
This is the Finale of Halfwits & Failed Crits Season 1 - Worlds Divided!
Thank you to all of our listeners who came along this journey with us! Please let use our social media below to let us know your favorite character, favorite funny moments, anything!
And if you are reading this here's the first teaser for whats coming next! Here's the cover art for H&FC S2 - Children of the Spine! More news on that later, this pandemic will probably effect when we start since we were hoping to have 7 more episodes ready to go by now. But we do have a 5 Part Prologue, World Building, Episode 1, and Faction Turn 1 already locked and loaded so we will be back! I can't wait for you all to hear the drastic increase in quality starting with world building and the new sound efforts put into episode 1! See you soon!
Music: Crunk Knight Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
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Bonus - Backstabbing Beasties

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10/13/21 • 184 min

Our resident mistress of the dark Mary takes the role of Fate in this spooky scary one shot sure to send shivers down your spine! Join Murphy the Merfolk (Luis), Lilith the Vampire (Kiley), Amelia the Spectre (Laura), and Joaquin the Mummy (Jonathan) as we race to obtain mortality and a long deserved rest from monstering.
Theme:
Unholy Knight by Kevin MacLeod
Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/4563-unholy-knight
License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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Backstabbing Beasties by donnyc.itch.io (@donovanplanet on twitter)
Supporting sounds all found on FreeSound.org under Creative Commons 0 License (Public Domain).
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Bonus - CotS Prequel Part III

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06/08/21 • 152 min

We rejoin the crew of the Resonance hot off of their battle in Barbalil, a second pre-scream artifact secured. As they make their way to the next set of deciphered coordinates, the planet Ephet-Izaki, we get a rare glimpse at the mundane lives of world class pirates. Infestations, robots, photographs, and a resource crisis all keep the long spike drill rides...interesting. On planet, Madam N.O.S. (Kiley) revisits her Alma Mater, CaseyNova's (Luis) latest creation roams menacingly, Tantalus (Laura) steals from a professor, Veil (Mary) does the captains job for them, and Sasha (Bobby) hallucinates with some college kids. With so many distractions will they remember to find the hidden artifact? Find out on Children of the Spine - Prequel Part III!
Game System:
Stars Without Number by Kevin Crawford.
Opening Theme:
Into the Portal - Wowobit
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*Voice Over added by Jonathan Swenson.
Ending Theme:
Cosmic Banner - Halfwits & Failed Crits Originals.
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