The Unexplored Places

The Unexplored Places is an actual play podcast about exploring strange worlds and making bold choices.

Where to begin?

The Unexplored Places currently has three seasons, a mini season, and several standalone arcs and oneshots. Use the handy guide below to decide which starting place is right for you!

Ruin's Gate
A weird western campaign in A Fistful of Darkness, about a precarious frontier town at the edge of a demon-infested wasteland on the distant planet of Antarras.start here if:
- you want to hit the ground running with the current season and not catch up on a lot of backlog
- you like Westerns but wish they had a lot less racism and sexism
- you like body horror, eco horror, weird technology, Appalachian folklore, and exciting rivalries
- you like critiques of settler colonialism, extractivism, rugged individualism, and the Catholic churchwhere to start?
- either with Ruin's Gate 00: Hell's Fortune, for detailed character- and world-building, or with Ruin's Gate 01: Into the Ruin, part 1 to jump right into the action

Deliverance, OH
A Monster of the Week campaign about a group of twenty-somethings discovering the magical undercurrents of a small college town in rural Ohio.start here if:
- you want to start from the beginning
- you're a fan of supernatural shows like Teen Wolf or Supernatural, but want more thoughtful queer representation
- you like monsters, horror, inter-party conflict, and dramatic revealswhere to start?
- either with character creation (Deliverance, OH 00: Everybody Loves Lance) or the start of the first mystery (Deliverance, OH 01: In the Beans, In the Beans)

Florence DeWitt's Paranormal Detective Agency
Our Patreon-exclusive bonus campaign of Monster of the Week, an episodic prequel series to Deliverance, OH set in Victorian London.start here if:
- you like shows like Penny Dreadful and The Irregulars, gothic horror, and tense horror-mysteries
- you like anthology-style shows featuring a rotating cast of characters
- you like historical fiction with plenty of canonically trans and queer characters
- you really like inter-party conflictwhere to start?
- first, listen to the Fata Morgana arc of Deliverance, OH to meet the characters (Deliverance, OH 34-39)
- then, head over to Patreon and support us at the $1+ tier and move onto FDPDA 01: G-g-g-ghost!

Tango Sector
A fast-paced, high-stakes scifi adventure of Scum & Villainy following the crew of the spaceship Pelagian as they try to make some cash and stay under the radar in a hegemonic, hypercapitalist space future.start here if:
- you want to dig in to something long
- you like scifi shows like Killjoys, Firefly, and The Mandalorian but wish they were much, much queerer
- you like space horror, weird mythological robots, alien gods, gay space cowboys, and himbos, and you also hate copswhere to start?
- either with character creation (Tango Sector 00: We've All F*cked Diego) or the start of the first mission (Tango Sector 01: Think of the Children)

One Shots and Standalone Arcs
If you want something shorter to get a feel for what we do, try one of the following one-shots or short standalone stories.Oh Dang! Bigfoot Stole My Car With My Friend's Birthday Present Inside!
Three friends embark on a cross-state roadtrip to chase down their stolen Jeep and all the birthday gifts stashed inside.Fiasco! A Rock Opera
A local community theater attempts to put on the overly ambitious Catfishes: THE Rock Opera, a production doomed from its very outset. And! check out Cat[ch] Fishes, or: The Trial of the King for a theatrical Regency heist that explains the true origins of Catfishes.Trophy Dark: the Kindly Ones
A standalone episode set in the same universe as Florence DeWitt's Paranormal Detective Agency, a group of explorers enter the ruins of an Ancient Greek temple and find themselves in way over their heads.Boy Problems (Patreon Exclusive)
In this futuristic and daring tale of adventure, romance, and betrayal, three agents undergo a heist to recover the lost music of Carly Rae Jepsen aboard a high speed, cross-country train.Places & Patrons (Patreon series)
A bimonthly series of one shots in various hacks of Lasers & Feelings, available on our Patreon for $3+ a month.