Follow the Leader
Follow the Leader is an actual play podcast with a focus on telling character-driven stories through the use of GMless tabletop games where we can all take the lead. We’re an LGBTQ actual play podcast that uses collaborative storytelling and world-building to create satisfying story arcs with a colorful cast of characters across different settings and genres. With stories ranging from fantasy to science-fiction to horror, there’s something for everyone. Check out our site at ftlcast.com for suggestions on where to begin, and find us on Bluesky @ ftlcast.bsky.social. Member of the Standing Stones Podcast Guild. Find us on Bluesky @ standingstonesprod.bsky.social
Episodes
Monday May 25, 2020
Bonus Episode, Part 1 - The Cynthia Saltburn Camp for Volatile Young Wizards
Monday May 25, 2020
Monday May 25, 2020
Join special guest Emily Riesbeck, Mab, Jade, and Zachary as we play Where Everybody Knows Your Name by Laura Lovelace, a sit-com inspired RPG about returning to a place you love, time and time again.
We rejoin our protagonists as they return once again to the Cynthia Saltburn Camp for Volatile Young Wizards at the beginning of summer...
Ziggy is played by Emily.
Vines is played by Mab.
Milo is played by Jade.
Don is played by Zachary.
Produced by August.
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Support us on Patreon! https://www.patreon.com/ftlcast
Find out more about the games we play (and where to buy them): https://www.ftlcast.com/games-weve-played
Episode summaries and transcripts available here: https://goo.gl/3nXVpA
Cover image by @sacalow and original music by @mercutioes.
Monday May 18, 2020
Episode 36.3 - Definitely Not Because of a Lightsaber
Monday May 18, 2020
Monday May 18, 2020
Join Mab, Kales, Jade, and Zachary as we finish our game of Icarus by Spenser Starke. Icarus is a collaborative storytelling game about the fall of a great civilization. Every game begins in a city-nation at the height of its power where, in celebration, the city has decided to erect a massive, ever-growing monument in the center of town to display its prestige to the world. You collaboratively discover what it means for a civilization to decay, as they all do with time, and when the monument finally falls, your civilization falls with it.
We return to space to view the fall of the kingdom of Elsinore some 20 years before the events of episode 18.1.
Fatima Oriol is played by Mab.
Meridian Prime is played by Kales.
Juniper Aurelios is played by Jade.
Sir Heid Rah is played by Zachary.
Produced by Mab.
Sound effects by Spanac from https://freesoundlibrary.com.
Support us on Patreon! https://www.patreon.com/ftlcast
Find out more about the games we play (and where to buy them): https://www.ftlcast.com/games-weve-played
Episode summaries and transcripts available here: https://goo.gl/3nXVpA
Cover image by @sacalow and original music by @roomwherepod.
Monday May 11, 2020
Episode 36.2 - It's a Surprise Tool that Will Help Us Later
Monday May 11, 2020
Monday May 11, 2020
Join Mab, Kales, Jade, and Zachary as we play Icarus by Spenser Starke. Icarus is a collaborative storytelling game about the fall of a great civilization. Every game begins in a city-nation at the height of its power where, in celebration, the city has decided to erect a massive, ever-growing monument in the center of town to display its prestige to the world. You collaboratively discover what it means for a civilization to decay, as they all do with time, and when the monument finally falls, your civilization falls with it.
We return to space to view the fall of the kingdom of Elsinore some 20 years before the events of episode 18.1.
Fatima Oriol is played by Mab.
Meridian Prime is played by Kales.
Juniper Aurelios is played by Jade.
Sir Heid Rah is played by Zachary.
Produced by Mab.
Support us on Patreon! https://www.patreon.com/ftlcast
Find out more about the games we play (and where to buy them): https://www.ftlcast.com/games-weve-played
Episode summaries and transcripts available here: https://goo.gl/3nXVpA
Cover image by @sacalow and original music by @roomwherepod.
Monday May 04, 2020
Episode 36.1 - Can We Please Have Nighttime?
Monday May 04, 2020
Monday May 04, 2020
Join Mab, Kales, Jade, and Zachary as we play Icarus by Spenser Starke. Icarus is a collaborative storytelling game about the fall of a great civilization. Every game begins in a city-nation at the height of its power where, in celebration, the city has decided to erect a massive, ever-growing monument in the center of town to display its prestige to the world. You collaboratively discover what it means for a civilization to decay, as they all do with time, and when the monument finally falls, your civilization falls with it.
We return to space to view the fall of the kingdom of Elsinore some 20 years before the events of episode 18.1.
Fatima Oriol is played by Mab.
Meridian Prime is played by Kales.
Juniper Aurelios is played by Jade.
Sir Heid Rah is played by Zachary.
Produced by Mab.
Support us on Patreon! https://www.patreon.com/ftlcast
Find out more about the games we play (and where to buy them): https://www.ftlcast.com/games-weve-played
Episode summaries and transcripts available here: https://goo.gl/3nXVpA
Cover image by @sacalow and original music by @roomwherepod.
Monday Apr 27, 2020
Episode 35.3 - You Nort a Boy
Monday Apr 27, 2020
Monday Apr 27, 2020
Join Jade, Mab, and Sam as we finish our game of Karma by Gareth H. Graham. The adventure is over! You have reached level 13 of the deepest dungeon and slain the dreaded menace that once guarded the legendary treasure. Here is the treasure itself, visible only in the light of your torches. There is not quite as much as you had anticipated. Not even close. This is a problem...
Quixote is played by Jade.
Temil is played by Mab.
Adlai is played by Sam.
Produced by Dora.
Support us on Patreon! https://www.patreon.com/ftlcast
Find out more about the games we play (and where to buy them): https://www.ftlcast.com/games-weve-played
Episode summaries and transcripts available here: https://goo.gl/3nXVpA
Cover image by @sacalow and original music by @mercutioes and @roomwherepod.
Monday Apr 20, 2020
Episode 35.2 - Had an Emotion, Didn't Enjoy It
Monday Apr 20, 2020
Monday Apr 20, 2020
Join Jade, Mab, and Sam as we play Karma by Gareth H. Graham. The adventure is over! You have reached level 13 of the deepest dungeon and slain the dreaded menace that once guarded the legendary treasure. Here is the treasure itself, visible only in the light of your torches. There is not quite as much as you had anticipated. Not even close. This is a problem...
Quixote is played by Jade.
Temil is played by Mab.
Adlai is played by Sam.
Produced by Dora.
Support us on Patreon! https://www.patreon.com/ftlcast
Find out more about the games we play (and where to buy them): https://www.ftlcast.com/games-weve-played
Episode summaries and transcripts available here: https://goo.gl/3nXVpA
Cover image by @sacalow and original music by @mercutioes
Monday Apr 13, 2020
Episode 35.1 - Bungeons and Blagons
Monday Apr 13, 2020
Monday Apr 13, 2020
Join Jade, Mab, and Sam as we play Karma by Gareth H. Graham. The adventure is over! You have reached level 13 of the deepest dungeon and slain the dreaded menace that once guarded the legendary treasure. Here is the treasure itself, visible only in the light of your torches. There is not quite as much as you had anticipated. Not even close. This is a problem...
Quixote is played by Jade.
Temil is played by Mab.
Adlai is played by Sam.
Produced by Dora.
Support us on Patreon! https://www.patreon.com/ftlcast
Find out more about the games we play (and where to buy them): https://www.ftlcast.com/games-weve-played
Episode summaries and transcripts available here: https://goo.gl/3nXVpA
Cover image by @sacalow and original music by @mercutioes
Monday Apr 06, 2020
Episode 34.2 - Show Me Your Secrets
Monday Apr 06, 2020
Monday Apr 06, 2020
Join Zachary, Jade, Mab, Kales, Sam, and Dora as finish our game of Ech0 by Roll Over Play Dead. Peace. Kids playing in mech wreckage. A ghost. One last journey across an ancient battleground to find a pilot's final resting place.
Ras'kul the Mighty is played by Zachary.
Theo is played by Jade.
Davey is played by Mab.
Merril is played by Kales.
Jo is played by Sam.
Parker is played by Dora.
Produced by Dora.
Support us on Patreon! https://www.patreon.com/ftlcast
Find out more about the games we play (and where to buy them): https://www.ftlcast.com/games-weve-played
Episode summaries and transcripts available here: https://goo.gl/3nXVpA
Cover image by @sacalow and original music by @mercutioes
Monday Mar 30, 2020
Episode 34.1 - Okay Boomer
Monday Mar 30, 2020
Monday Mar 30, 2020
Join Zachary, Jade, Mab, Kales, Sam, and Dora as we play Ech0 by Roll Over Play Dead. Peace. Kids playing in mech wreckage. A ghost. One last journey across an ancient battleground to find a pilot's final resting place.
Ras'kul the Mighty is played by Zachary.
Theo is played by Jade.
Davey is played by Mab.
Merril is played by Kales.
Jo is played by Sam.
Parker is played by Dora.
Produced by Dora.
Support us on Patreon! https://www.patreon.com/ftlcast
Find out more about the games we play (and where to buy them): https://www.ftlcast.com/games-weve-played
Episode summaries and transcripts available here: https://goo.gl/3nXVpA
Cover image by @sacalow and original music by @mercutioes
Monday Mar 23, 2020
Episode 33.3 - How Can We Say No To Grandma Cat?
Monday Mar 23, 2020
Monday Mar 23, 2020
Join special guest Takuma, along with Kales, Zachary, and Dora, as we finish our game of Stewpot: Tales from a Fantasy Tavern by Takuma Okada. Stewpot is a collection of small games lets you, a retired adventurer, play out different parts of running a tavern and settling down in a town together with your old adventuring party.
Wist Scakeya is played by Takuma.
Jericho Chainbreaker is played by Zachary.
Marius Thank-the-Gods-For-Small-Favors is played by Dora.
Sable is played by Kales.
Produced by Zachary.
Support us on Patreon! https://www.patreon.com/ftlcast
Find out more about the games we play (and where to buy them): https://www.ftlcast.com/games-weve-played
Episode summaries and transcripts available here: https://goo.gl/3nXVpA
Cover image by @sacalow and original music by @mercutioes