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Cool Story Guys

Jeff Kirby, Ethan Moses

Cool Story Guys is a creative writing podcast and fantasy adventure audiobook where major plot points are determined by RPG-style dice rolls. Join hosts Jeff and Ethan for humorous discussions about the storytelling process and an ongoing collaborative fantasy tale inspired by the unpredictability of role-playing games and actual play podcasts.

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Cool Story Guys S01E10: Chapter Five - Coffee and the...

Cool Story Guys ·

2021/04/19

An outlander comes to the Northern Plateaus looking for leads on a powerful girl whose actions threaten to topple a world that has already been thrown perilously off balance.

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00:33:22

Cool Story Guys S01E09: La Femme Magenta

Cool Story Guys ·

2021/04/19

The Fate Index's bloodlust has left us in a precarious situation. Where do we go from here? How can we possibly salvage this miserably-paced story and sell it to Netflix or Amazon? Other topics include which stories we'd like to see on the big and small screen and how fantasy death is a bit more malleable than non-fantasy death.

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00:33:03

Cool Story Guys S01E08: Chapter Four - The Storm...

Cool Story Guys ·

2021/04/05

Shaken from her vision in the cavern, fear begins to cloud the mind of the crimson woman, causing her abilities to falter when Koa desperately needs her assistance.

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00:32:21

Cool Story Guys S01E07: Tween Romance Revue

Cool Story Guys ·

2021/04/05

We are forced to deal with the war crimes the Fate Index forced us to commit in Chapter 3 and the fact that our dice rolls so far have been such unrelenting bummers. Other topics include a gacha backpack full of tuna and flaming swords and Jeff's terrible X-Men power.

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00:41:32

Cool Story Guys S01E06: Chapter Three - The Heart of...

Cool Story Guys ·

2021/03/18

With Morwell unconscious and her grandfather missing, Laureena must improvise with what is available on the wrecked trawler and bide her time until help arrives. When she meets another marooned boy named Calix, a deep friendship is quickly forged, and the two decide to take their survival into their own hands.

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00:35:36

Cool Story Guys S01E05: Fantasy Toilet Wine

Cool Story Guys ·

2021/03/18

The dice made us do some things in Chapter 2 that we probably wouldn't have chosen to do ourselves, so we talk all about it. Fearful of being seen as a fraud, Jeff has started playing Dungeons & Dragons again, but is mostly just using it as an excuse to drink wine and eat candy in his bathroom. Ethan begins to realize that every accent he conjures up drags him back to his dark past in Southern Indiana.

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00:26:33

Cool Story Guys S01E04: Chapter Two - An Impossible Sea

Cool Story Guys ·

2021/03/04

Morwell awakens in a brutal and barren landscape, his boat run aground and destroyed. As his clouded memory clears, he realizes that his shipmates are missing and woefully unprepared for their new, dangerous environment.

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00:29:15

Cool Story Guys S01E03: Meathands Johnson and the...

Cool Story Guys ·

2021/03/03

We explore the opening chapter of the book and discuss how the first set of rolls from the Fate Index has set the tone for the story moving forward. Topics include the allure of nameless protagonists, our deep-seated desires to undermine what the other has contributed to the story, and the nihilistic reading habits of Ethan’s toddler son.

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00:25:22

Cool Story Guys S01E02: Chapter One - The Untouched

Cool Story Guys ·

2021/03/02

In the opening chapter of our story we find the island of Koa beset by a mystifying catastrophe: the ocean has disappeared. A storm is raging and the exposed sands cannot be traversed. Terrified, the islanders decide to ask a powerful recluse for her help in discovering the cause of the disappearance.

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00:32:22

Cool Story Guys S01E01: Bone Hammers and Treasure Map...

Cool Story Guys ·

2021/03/01

Welcome to Cool Story Guys! In this introductory episode we discuss the outline of our collaborative fantasy story and the dice rolls that determined its genre, setting, scope, and more. Topics include a variety of books pertinent to our project that we have not read (and a few we have), how role-playing games have influenced our creative thinking and storytelling processes, and a discussion on the enduring works of Kevin Costner and how all of the good ideas from “Waterworld” will be pilfered for

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