Nerds of the Pit

The podcast where every week, a bunch of nerds ooze into a Vermont basement to play tabletop roleplaying games. Nerds of the Pit is an actual play podcast recorded in a basement in Vergennes, Vermont. We roll dice, argue about initiative order, and tell stories that swing from swamp gothic horror to deep space paranoia, sometimes in the same session. We're running two campaigns: Out of the Duskhome — a homebrew D&D 5e (2024 rules) adventure set in remote Aeore Parish, where Spanish moss hides more than just alligators, a silent goddess has abandoned her people to their fate, an ancient evil festers in the heart of the swamp, and pirates prowl the coast looking for a payday. Lagrange Point — a corporate horror campaign aboard the deep space freighter M.S. Bad Romance, running first in Mothership and then switching over to our own eponymous, homegrown game system. Listen as the crew deals with a dead, transmogrifying scientist, ruthless mercenaries in pursuit, and a space station locked in orbit around a radiation-spewing, murderous red dwarf star. Whether you're here for the swamp or the stars, you'll get real dice, deep character work, and a table of nerds who take the fiction seriously and themselves not at all — mostly because we're too busy cracking each other up to stay serious for long. New episodes drop weekly.