Adventure Capitalists
Adventure Capitalists
Podcast Description
Adventure Capitalists is a competitive actual play for a cash prize. Two teams of four characters have one mission: make as much money in game as possible, the wealthiest team of adventurers at the end of four sessions wins a real-world cash prize!
To keep with the grungy murder-hobo vibe of our concept, we're using the MÖRK BORG as the foundation of our game. It's an environment that encourages the worst playstyles for the most unscrupulous characters, all taking place in a world the players built to be extremely unpleasant.
For our first season, we pit a team of improv comedians from Chicago against a team from Los Angeles, and the cast is incredible:
Team Chicago:
Claire Linic as Eggs: Mystery County - Instagram - Twitter
Joolz as Valentine: The Pod Has Been Cast - Instagram - Twitter
James Dugan as Ebenezer Hollythorn: Talking Shop - Instagram - Twitter
Brad Pike as Shank Pubis: Instagram - Twitter
Team LA:
Rashawn Scott: Mystery County - Dimension 20 - Bluesky - Instagram - Twitter
Tyler Samples: Mystery County - Instagram - Twitter
Avery Lee: https://www.averyllee.com/ - Instagram - Twitter
Alan Linic: Mystery County - Instagram - Twitter
They are of course all suffering under the uncharacteristically cruel GMing of James D'Amato (Campaign: Skyjacks - Starwhal: Odyssey - The Ultimate RPG Podcast - Bluesky).
After drafting elements for worldbuilding and character creation each team has four 4-hour sessions to make as much money as possible in the game by any means necessary. The draft allows them to empower their own team or make their rival's task more difficult. Once the fourth session ends all the fantasy gold is counted up and the richest team wins $700. It's not a lot, but you'd be surprised what people will do for it.
This show airs Weekly on OSN through February!
Podcast Insights
Content Themes
The podcast delves into themes of moral ambiguity, competition, and dark humor, with episodes highlighting character-driven plots such as heists, sabotage, and absurd social interactions. Specific episodes explore the challenges of auction dynamics, bizarre character creations, and unlikely partnerships against a backdrop of a grim world the players build.
Adventure Capitalists is a competitive actual play for a cash prize. Two teams of four characters have one mission: make as much money in game as possible, the wealthiest team of adventurers at the end of four sessions wins a real-world cash prize!
To keep with the grungy murder-hobo vibe of our concept, we’re using the MÖRK BORG as the foundation of our game. It’s an environment that encourages the worst playstyles for the most unscrupulous characters, all taking place in a world the players built to be extremely unpleasant.
For our first season, we pit a team of improv comedians from Chicago against a team from Los Angeles, and the cast is incredible:
Team Chicago:
Claire Linic as Eggs: Mystery County – Instagram – Twitter
Joolz as Valentine: The Pod Has Been Cast – Instagram – Twitter
James Dugan as Ebenezer Hollythorn: Talking Shop – Instagram – Twitter
Brad Pike as Shank Pubis: Instagram – Twitter
Team LA:
Rashawn Scott: Mystery County – Dimension 20 – Bluesky – Instagram – Twitter
Tyler Samples: Mystery County – Instagram – Twitter
Avery Lee: https://www.averyllee.com/ – Instagram – Twitter
Alan Linic: Mystery County – Instagram – Twitter
They are of course all suffering under the uncharacteristically cruel GMing of James D’Amato (Campaign: Skyjacks – Starwhal: Odyssey – The Ultimate RPG Podcast – Bluesky).
After drafting elements for worldbuilding and character creation each team has four 4-hour sessions to make as much money as possible in the game by any means necessary. The draft allows them to empower their own team or make their rival’s task more difficult. Once the fourth session ends all the fantasy gold is counted up and the richest team wins $700. It’s not a lot, but you’d be surprised what people will do for it.
This show airs Weekly on OSN through February!
Our poor adventurers are struggling against their gold allergies and things get dire for at least one of them while they are caught between a mountain of gold and a smoke demon. Can their last-ditch effort pay off big time in the 11th hour? And what secrets of this world will be revealed in the finale of this competition?!
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Adventure Capitalists, Team LA
- Rashawn Scott as Douglas Fir: Mystery County – Dimension 20 – Bluesky – Instagram – Twitter
- Tyler Samples as Spuggles the Elf: Mystery County – Instagram – Twitter
- Avery Lee as The Grunch: https://www.averyllee.com/ – Instagram – Twitter
- Alan Linic as Old Bunsy: Mystery County – Instagram – Twitter
- James D’Amato as the GM:Campaign: Skyjacks – Starwhal: Odyssey – The Ultimate RPG Podcast – Bluesky
Editing and Sound Design
- Ryan Boelter – Bluesky – Character Creation Cast
Music and SFX
- Courtesy of SoundStripe
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