Halfwits & Failed Crits
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!
Listen to our adventure averse journalists in a cozy fantasy called The Parable Infused Tribune. Played with PenultiMyth, a game of our own design!
Or dive into our back catalog to experience our award nominated sci-fi epic about destiny confused space kids in Children of the Spine. Played with Stars Without Number, by Kevin Crawford.
(Produced by Halfwit Podcasts)
- Update frequency
- every 18 days
- Average duration
- 117 minutes
- Episodes
- 72
- Years Active
- 2020 - 2025
Children of the Spine Ep 5 - Racing Never Changes | A Stars Without Number Podcast
The children prepare for their trip to the true outside of the bubble! Kamala goes through some changes, John is a perv, Astrid tries to redeem herself, Nadia flexes her pilot muscles, …
Bonus - Children of the Spine - Prequel Part III
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 plan…
Children of the Spine Ep 4 - A Binary Handshake | A Stars Without Number Podcast
The Children are in lock-down! John, Kamala, Astrid, and Nadia get caught venting, while Mohan stays behind with a clean house and a new friend.
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Bonus - Children of the Spine - Prequel Part II
The crew of the Resonance is now in possession of a potential pre-scream artifact, and a map to find more! After deciphering the next set of coordinates, they are off to the planet Barb…
Children of the Spine Ep 3 - That One's for Free | A Stars Without Number Podcast
After their cryptic encounter in Lognar, the Children are in search of answers. And what better person to give answers than everyone's favorite elderly neighbor, Frank.
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Bonus - Children of the Spine - Prequel Part I
This is the first of 5 games that were intended to be one shots, using the Stars Without Number Revised system by Kevin Crawford, but the group ended up liking it so much they wanted to…
Children of the Spine Ep 2 - Real Boats Rock | A Stars Without Number Podcast
We rejoin the Children as they spend their usual morning in the dorm reading magazines, feeding amorphous wolf birds, hacking government websites, and figuring out how to obtain a gun.…
Bonus - Children of the Spine - Faction Turn #1
This is the first Faction Turn where Jonathan moves the people of the greater sector around like the little chess pieces they are, which keeps the world alive and changing outside the m…
Children of the Spine Ep 1 - All the Lights in the Sky are Stars | A Stars Without Number Podcast
Astrid Folstad (Kiley), John Coal (Bobby), Kamala Magar (Laura), Mohan Wayuu (Luis), and Nadia Kadir (Mary), are five years older and have lived a comfortable life in the newly establi…
Children of the Spine - Prologue | A Stars Without Number Podcast
After the Scream Pursuit Syndicate met their fate in the final battle of the Prequel, a group of onlooking children were transported to the newly appeared Planet under the Spine, Nedrak…
Children of the Spine - World Building | A Stars Without Number Podcast
In this episode zero the Failed Crits Crew sits down and breathes some more life into the star sector. Jonathan reads a bit of history from the Stars Without Number rule book by Kevin C…
Halfwits & Failed Crits Trailer
Welcome to the table everyone!
I'm Jonathan, Narrator of Halfwits & Failed Crits, an actual play podcast where the real big bad evil is the players' absolutely cursed dice.
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