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Born To Lose - Torchbearer RPG podcast

@borntolosepodcast.bsky.social

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borntolose.podbean.com A community podcast about the Torchbearer rpg. Rotating interview guests and actual plays. Contact us here!

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Born To Lose - Torchbearer RPG podcast @borntolosepodcast.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Ep 43: Mermaids in RPGs I catch up with @jaredsorensen.bsky.social and talk about his latest work on a Torchbearer-inspired #RPG about #mermaids open.spotify.com/episode/2V9b...

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Mermaids in RPGs with Jared

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Born To Lose - Torchbearer RPG podcast @borntolosepodcast.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Ep 42: Interview with Corey Roll20 tools and campaign planning #torchbearer #rpg open.spotify.com/episode/4NrY...

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RPG campaign planning and Roll20 tools (with Corey)

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Born To Lose - Torchbearer RPG podcast @borntolosepodcast.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Ep: 41 - Interview with Price (converting old adventures, Dark Sun warp-up) And we are back! Talking with Price Rowland about the conclusion to his Dark Sun Torchbearer campaign and best practices for converting old D&D adventures to Torchbearer open.spotify.com/episode/3Hy8...

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Interview with Price (converting old adventures, Dark Sun wrap-up)

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Born To Lose - Torchbearer RPG podcast @borntolosepodcast.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Ep 40: Interview with Eric Vulgaris A chat with @ericvulgaris.bsky.social on his deep experience running Torchbearer online and open table open.spotify.com/episode/6JLB...

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Interview with Eric (online play, open tables)

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Born To Lose - Torchbearer RPG podcast @borntolosepodcast.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

Ep 39 - Interview with Owen (press, publishing, Planescape) Throwing down with Owen of Mordite Press as we discuss publishing, the 1e Cleric, and Torchbearer Planescape. open.spotify.com/episode/1lfd...

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Interview with Owen (press, publishing, planescape)

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Born To Lose - Torchbearer RPG podcast @borntolosepodcast.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

Ep 38: Interview with Price (Six months of Dark Sun) I chat with returning guest Price about how it's been going on his Torchbearer Dark Sun campaign. FIREBALL! 🎺🥳 open.spotify.com/episode/6wf9...

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Interview with Price (Dark Sun Torchbearer retrospective)

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Born To Lose - Torchbearer RPG podcast @borntolosepodcast.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

Ep 37: Interview with Kilivan (all my friends hate Torchbearer) I chat with Kilivan about how great Torchbearer is and how wrong all the haters are. He has had quite a few haters in his life. open.spotify.com/episode/4b1n...

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Interview with Kilivan (all my friends hate Torchbearer)

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Born To Lose - Torchbearer RPG podcast @borntolosepodcast.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

Ep 36: Interview with Eric (layout) A chat with Eric Swanson about his work doing layout and design with Torchbearer and other indie games open.spotify.com/episode/4xSd...

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Interview with Eric Swanson (design & layout)

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Born To Lose - Torchbearer RPG podcast @borntolosepodcast.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

Ep 35: Interview with Shane (starships!) I throw down with Shane King discussing his work in progress sci-fi Torchbearer game, tentatively titled 'RIP'. We go step by step on home base starship creation amd get into what differentiates fantasy from science fiction open.spotify.com/episode/04Pf...

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Interview with Shane - Creating a starship in RIP

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Born To Lose - Torchbearer RPG podcast @borntolosepodcast.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

Ep 34: Interview with Dave, Hater of Shamans I interview one of the players in my campaign, Dave. Dave is the player, not the campaign. We talk about faeries and World of Darkness a lot, and then he starts ragging on the Shaman class. open.spotify.com/episode/6iNi...

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Interview with Dave Olsher, Hater of Shamans

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Duamn Figueroa Rassol 🇦🇷 [Commissions Open] @duamn.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

@borntolosepodcast.bsky.social Ross' Isle of Dread Torchbearer party. I just love drawing traumatized adventuring weirdoes. Let me draw yours!

A party of adventurers, numbering a pariah elf, a fingerless harlequin, a swashbuckling troll-man, and a resurrected mystic.

Born To Lose - Torchbearer RPG podcast @borntolosepodcast.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

Ep 33: Jared & Ross make a Class Jared Sorensen rises forth from his eternal rest to help me make a new Class, the Gravedigger. It was a fun exercise prying into the mind of the undisputed champion of Torchbearer 3rd party class design. open.spotify.com/episode/5BC6...

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Born To Lose - Torchbearer RPG podcast @borntolosepodcast.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

Ep 32: Interview with Keegan My interview with Keegan Cassady about his artistic work. We play a little improv game to create procedural high-level Torchbearer challenges open.spotify.com/episode/0GKC...

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Interview with Keegan Cassady (art, high level obstacles)

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Duamn Figueroa Rassol 🇦🇷 [Commissions Open] @duamn.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

Wanna hear Ross and I talk about #Torchbearer, analyze #DnD culture and it's shift from old D&D to modern D&D? Check this out 👇 I had a great time, and I really appreciate Born to Lose bringing some well earned love to Torchbearer.

Born To Lose - Torchbearer RPG podcast @borntolosepodcast.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

Ep 31: Interview with Duamn (Mordite Press, MRDRHOBO) An amazing chat with the esteemable @duamn.bsky.social talking about the games he's playing and all of the sideways crazy inventive art he gets into. open.spotify.com/episode/0whg...

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Interview with Duamn (Mordite Press, Murder Hobos)

Born To Lose - Torchbearer RPG podcast @borntolosepodcast.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

Ep 30: Interview with Sean Nittner I talk with Sean about his time creating Stone Dragon Mountain, fumbling in the dark by playing Torchbearer with incomplete rules, and all of his many many projects. open.spotify.com/episode/646P...

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Interview with Sean Nittner (Stone Dragon Mountain)

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Born To Lose - Torchbearer RPG podcast @borntolosepodcast.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

Ep 29: Interview with Michael Michael talks about his experiences with running a West Marches style shared world campaign featuring two full Torchbearer groups and innovative Town building mechanics open.spotify.com/episode/3GO8...

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Interview with Michael (base building in west marches)

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Born To Lose - Torchbearer RPG podcast @borntolosepodcast.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

Ep 28: Speedrun with Shane King Here it is everyone, gold winner Shane showing us all how it's done with a sneaky Halfling, in over his head and entirely out of his element, triumph over impossible odds. open.spotify.com/episode/127B...

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Born To Lose - Torchbearer RPG podcast @borntolosepodcast.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

Ep27: Speedrun with Brendan Flattery It's Dwarf #2 claiming the silver medal in #UnderTheHouseOfThreeSquires #Torchbearer #RPG open.spotify.com/episode/3tpa...

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Speedrun Competition - Brendan Flattery

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Born To Lose - Torchbearer RPG podcast @borntolosepodcast.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

Ep 26: Speedrun with Price Rowland Bronze place winner of the competition coming in hot with a Dwarf Stoneteller and a dream. #HouseOfThreeSquires #Torchbearer #RPG open.spotify.com/episode/4cBX...

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Speedrun Competition - Price Rowland

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Born To Lose - Torchbearer RPG podcast @borntolosepodcast.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

Ep 25: It is Speedrun Week. A few quick thoughts from me and a mashups of fun clips from our competitors. The full recordings of the top three runs are coming out the rest of this week open.spotify.com/episode/00d8...

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Speedrun Competition Recaps

Born To Lose - Torchbearer RPG podcast @borntolosepodcast.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

Ep 24: Interview with Luke A chat with none other than Sir Luke Crane. We talk about game design and layout in RPGs open.spotify.com/episode/38AJ...

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Interview with Luke Crane (game design and layout)

Born To Lose - Torchbearer RPG podcast @borntolosepodcast.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

Ep 23: Interview with @iamfivebears.bsky.social A very exciting episode that I've been looking forward to. I interview someone close to me who's keeps coming back to my game table, but something just doesn't click regarding Torchbearer. We dig deep into the 'why'. open.spotify.com/episode/5b0N...

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Interview with Andy (struggles with Torchbearer)

Born To Lose - Torchbearer RPG podcast @borntolosepodcast.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

Born To Lose Ep 22: Lets Play Isle of Dread The gang captures a bunch of man-sized flying dinosaurs, circling in on the central plateau. Or did the dinos capture ... their hearts? Lots of sidebar chatter. open.spotify.com/episode/6U0u...

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Let's Play - Isle of Dread Highlight Reel #2

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Born To Lose - Torchbearer RPG podcast @borntolosepodcast.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

Ep 21: Interview with Brendan and Deuce (competitive tabletop RPGs) B & D talk with me about the fun times us three have had making and running competitions in D&D and other RPGs. Defy Danger! open.spotify.com/episode/4FMD...

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Interview with Brendan and Deuce (competitive RPGs)

Born To Lose - Torchbearer RPG podcast @borntolosepodcast.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

Ep 20: Dread Crypt Finale And now the exciting conclusion ... what happened to Jean-Francois in the Dread Crypt of Skogenby? open.spotify.com/episode/34ze...

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Let's Play Torchbearer (Single-Player, Dread Crypt of Skogenby, Part 2)

Born To Lose - Torchbearer RPG podcast @borntolosepodcast.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

Big announcement from the **Born to Lose** *Torchbearer* podcast! The call is **open** for online 1 GM 1 PC competitive speedrun delving of *Under The House of Three Squires*. DM me to get involved, more details are going to be posted in LFG! open.spotify.com/episode/5GrM...

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Torchbearer Speedrun Competition - Introduction

Born To Lose - Torchbearer RPG podcast @borntolosepodcast.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

Bonjour from the Born to Lose podcast! This week's episode features an informative and experimental Let's Play with myself and Jean-Francois playing 1 GM 1 PC Torchbearer, delving into that most classic adventure The Dread Crypt of Skogenby. Sacre bleu! open.spotify.com/episode/3XOe...

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Born To Lose - Torchbearer RPG podcast @borntolosepodcast.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

Ep 17: Lets Play Isle of Dread - Highlights Reel The selected peak 40 minutes from a session of my home game. This one was from the time of the 2026 northeast USA ice-prison storm, so we were all online, and thus the sound quality is half-decent. open.spotify.com/episode/0gzc...

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Let's Play Torchbearer (Isle of Dread Session 3 Highlight Reel)

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Born To Lose - Torchbearer RPG podcast @borntolosepodcast.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

Ep 16: Interview with Quincy (game prep) Talking with returning guest Quincy about different styles and hot takes on Torchbearer rpg game prep open.spotify.com/episode/6gp4...

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Interview with Quincy (game prep)

Born To Lose - Torchbearer RPG podcast @borntolosepodcast.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

Ep 15: Interview with Jack (Dark Fort) **Born to Lose ** podcast interview with Jack from Australia about using Torchbearer with grimdark adventures/settings, such as Lamentations of the Flame Princess open.spotify.com/episode/22Xd...

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Interview with Jack (grim, dark dungeons)

Born To Lose - Torchbearer RPG podcast @borntolosepodcast.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

Episode 15 - Let's Play! Raw audio from my home game with Beliefs, Instincts, Goals; and then immediately into a Kill conflict against the Elf's pirate captain nemesis! open.spotify.com/episode/6ipF...

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Let's Play (Beliefs, Instincts, Goals; Kill Conflict)

Born To Lose - Torchbearer RPG podcast @borntolosepodcast.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

Episode 14: Interview with Keith (Yggdrasil, kids) An amazing interview with @keithsenkowski.com , author/creator of the Yggdrasil magazine. We talk about that, weird art, and the joys he has found running Torchbearer rpg for teenagers open.spotify.com/episode/36S2...

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Interview with Keith (Gaming with kids, ADHD, Yggdrasil)

Born To Lose - Torchbearer RPG podcast @borntolosepodcast.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

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Born To Lose - Torchbearer RPG podcast @borntolosepodcast.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

Ep13: Torchbearer Prologue, as delivered by a renn faire actor Got a growing backlog so you'll start to see some double posting weeks, such as this one. From my home game, the Prologue by one of our players, who is in fact a Renn Faire actor. It is a silly place. open.spotify.com/episode/7xqI...

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Let's Play (Prologue, As Done By A Renn Faire Actor)

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Keith @ Funky Ferndale Art Fair Booth 20 @keithsenkowski.com · 09/02/2026

Got a little wordy about measurements, AI, productivity, and magic tricks.

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Sometimes you get lucky. Sometimes you stumble across a thing that leads to another thing that leads to you sitting and watching a two hour documentary you didn't know existed. This used to happen a l...

Born To Lose - Torchbearer RPG podcast @borntolosepodcast.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

Ep 12: Interview woth Thor You know him, you love him, the big guy @thor2927 talks with me about the Middermark 2E update 🦀 , and using twists. Happy Birthday! open.spotify.com/episode/3TGa...

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Interview with Thor (Middarmark 2E, Twists & Compromises)

Born To Lose - Torchbearer RPG podcast @borntolosepodcast.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

Ep 11: Interview with Quincy A fun chat with Burning Wheel Discord Mod Quincy on west marches campaigns and why I, Ross, am a psychologically broken individual. GOOD TIMES open.spotify.com/episode/5dcE...

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Born To Lose - Torchbearer RPG podcast @borntolosepodcast.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

Have you played Torchbearer? Do you have a story or two to share? If so, get on my podcast! I'm looking for new guests throughout the rpg community to talk about this fascinating tabletop game. Reach oit to me here!

Born To Lose - Torchbearer RPG podcast @borntolosepodcast.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

Ep 10: Interview with Shane (scifi, dwarves) Check out a cool conversation I had with Shane King about scifi hacks using Torchbearer (RIP), adventures with all Dwarves, and some of his experiences as a playtester for Torchbearer open.spotify.com/episode/3lDs...

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Interview with Shane (Sci-fi & Dwarves)

Born To Lose - Torchbearer RPG podcast @borntolosepodcast.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

I spoke with @riseupcomus.bsky.social about His Majesty The Worm! open.spotify.com/episode/7xIg...

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Interview with Josh (His Majesty The Worm)

Born To Lose - Torchbearer RPG podcast @borntolosepodcast.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

Ep 08: Price talks about his Dark Sun conversion for Torchbearer and the experience of Gen Z in a community full of olds. open.spotify.com/show/3NsElju...

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Interview with Price (Dark Sun conversion)

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Born To Lose - Torchbearer RPG podcast @borntolosepodcast.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

Jared Sorensen talks about his infatuation with little characters and shares some stories from the early pre-launch days of Torchbearer. This podcast needs a little salt! open.spotify.com/episode/7t2g...

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Interview with Jared (Halflings and other smallfolk)

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Born To Lose - Torchbearer RPG podcast @borntolosepodcast.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

Episode 06: Interview with Chloe (Head to Head) on Podbean, check it out! www.podbean.com/ea/pb-ngdq3-... Torchbearer RPG Podcast

Interview with Chloe (Head to Head)

Chloe talks about the Torchbearer two-team, competitive, Head-to-Head delve ran at BurningCon2025 using the adventure The Secret Vault of the Queen of Thieves. Chloe's Links:crowsworthy.itch.ioStrata ...

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Born To Lose - Torchbearer RPG podcast @borntolosepodcast.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

I published my new episode Actual Play - Red Hand of Doom 02, please check it out www.podbean.com/ea/pb-kfnxm-...

Actual Play - Red Hand of Doom 02

Part 2 of 2 of the actual play recordings form one session of Ross' Red Hand of Doom Torchbearer campaign, recorded in 2021. Born To Lose is a community-based podcast for the Torchbearer tabletop role...

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Born To Lose - Torchbearer RPG podcast @borntolosepodcast.bsky.social · 06/01/2026

Ep 04: Actual Play (Red Hand of Doom, part 1) open.spotify.com/episode/0cQs...

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Actual Play - Red Hand of Doom 01

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Born To Lose - Torchbearer RPG podcast @borntolosepodcast.bsky.social · 05/01/2026

Ep 03: Interview with Steven & Deuce (Red Hand of Doom campaign) open.spotify.com/episode/3U00...

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Interview with Steven & Deuce (Red Hand of Doom campaign)

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Born To Lose - Torchbearer RPG podcast @borntolosepodcast.bsky.social · 04/01/2026

New episode of the Torchbearer RPG podcast! Interview with Tony (Picaresque), please check it out www.podbean.com/ea/pb-6fexf-...

Interview with Tony (Picaresque)

Ross talks with Tony about the tradition of 16th century Spanish picaresque literature and how it intersects with the themes of Torchbearer. NOTE: This is an archive episode from several years ago rec...

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Born To Lose - Torchbearer RPG podcast @borntolosepodcast.bsky.social · 04/01/2026

New episode of the Torchbearer RPG podcast! Interview with Ross (Born To Lose), please check it out www.podbean.com/ea/pb-jyi2m-...

Interview with Ross (Born To Lose)

Interview with Ross discussing his hopes and dreams on starting up this podcast. Born To Lose is a community-based podcast for the Torchbearer tabletop roleplaying game. Ross' Links:https://www.drivet...

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