Huge thank you to @nzwebfest.co.nz for nominating us for Best Cast and Best Host in an Actual Play Podcast! #ttrpg #webfests
October 1, 2026 at 1:58 PM
Huge thank you to @nzwebfest.co.nz for nominating us for Best Cast and Best Host in an Actual Play Podcast! #ttrpg #webfests
I know I always say it when I do these posts but congrats to the SV cast @lowrianndavies.bsky.social, @livkennedy.bsky.social, @lizxcampbell.bsky.social, @zackfg.bsky.social and @rhyslawtonactor.bsky.social! And thank you to @tabletopartsfund.org for helping us get our show out there at webfests!
September 29, 2026 at 9:49 PM
I know I always say it when I do these posts but congrats to the SV cast @lowrianndavies.bsky.social, @livkennedy.bsky.social, @lizxcampbell.bsky.social, @zackfg.bsky.social and @rhyslawtonactor.bsky.social! And thank you to @tabletopartsfund.org for helping us get our show out there at webfests!
Credit as always to @lizxcampbell.bsky.social, @lowrianndavies.bsky.social, @livkennedy.bsky.social, @zackfg.bsky.social and @rhyslawtonactor.bsky.social for being an excellent cast and to @tabletopartsfund.org for helping us entering #AWFC webfests this year! ♥️
September 27, 2026 at 12:48 AM
Credit as always to @lizxcampbell.bsky.social, @lowrianndavies.bsky.social, @livkennedy.bsky.social, @zackfg.bsky.social and @rhyslawtonactor.bsky.social for being an excellent cast and to @tabletopartsfund.org for helping us entering #AWFC webfests this year! ♥️
Happy Friday, travelers! Amazing news this morning: we've been nominated for Best Actual Play (Podcast) for the 2026 Apulia Webfest! #ttrpg #genesysrpg #podcast #actualplay #webfests
Thank you so much for the nomination, we're so excited to have received it!!
Thank you so much for the nomination, we're so excited to have received it!!
September 11, 2026 at 3:53 PM
Happy Friday, travelers! Amazing news this morning: we've been nominated for Best Actual Play (Podcast) for the 2026 Apulia Webfest! #ttrpg #genesysrpg #podcast #actualplay #webfests
Thank you so much for the nomination, we're so excited to have received it!!
Thank you so much for the nomination, we're so excited to have received it!!
Nah fuck that, we've actively withdrawn from webfests using/promoting AI
September 9, 2026 at 10:21 PM
Nah fuck that, we've actively withdrawn from webfests using/promoting AI
Hey so are people just cool with all these webfests being cool with generative AI or using AI posters just because it gets your name out there? Like is it fine if it promotes your things or...? Where do you draw the line?
September 9, 2026 at 10:20 PM
Hey so are people just cool with all these webfests being cool with generative AI or using AI posters just because it gets your name out there? Like is it fine if it promotes your things or...? Where do you draw the line?
Also, a friendly reminder:
Award season comes with complicated emotions and a lot of those feelings are valid and coexist. It is okay to be weary of webfests, award shows, and grants while also being stoked if you/your friends got something
Community binds us, not trophies
Award season comes with complicated emotions and a lot of those feelings are valid and coexist. It is okay to be weary of webfests, award shows, and grants while also being stoked if you/your friends got something
Community binds us, not trophies
July 20, 2026 at 6:01 PM
Also, a friendly reminder:
Award season comes with complicated emotions and a lot of those feelings are valid and coexist. It is okay to be weary of webfests, award shows, and grants while also being stoked if you/your friends got something
Community binds us, not trophies
Award season comes with complicated emotions and a lot of those feelings are valid and coexist. It is okay to be weary of webfests, award shows, and grants while also being stoked if you/your friends got something
Community binds us, not trophies
Ive often worried that our lack our devil may care Variety Show format just wasn’t gonna be for critics and webfests, that we’re too weird or too hard to pin down. We’re not a comedy, or a drama, or a series anthology, hell we don’t even have a consistent cast!
But making the screener helped me:
But making the screener helped me:
October 8, 2025 at 8:55 PM
Ive often worried that our lack our devil may care Variety Show format just wasn’t gonna be for critics and webfests, that we’re too weird or too hard to pin down. We’re not a comedy, or a drama, or a series anthology, hell we don’t even have a consistent cast!
But making the screener helped me:
But making the screener helped me:
Finally had the time to just sit and hyperfocus on making a screener for the podcast.
Webfests in general are hard for me due to money and stupid REJECTION SENSITIVITY (in a cool way) but thanks to some supporting and helpful friends, I beefed up and did the damn thing
I’m a smidge emotional:
Webfests in general are hard for me due to money and stupid REJECTION SENSITIVITY (in a cool way) but thanks to some supporting and helpful friends, I beefed up and did the damn thing
I’m a smidge emotional:
October 8, 2025 at 8:55 PM
Finally had the time to just sit and hyperfocus on making a screener for the podcast.
Webfests in general are hard for me due to money and stupid REJECTION SENSITIVITY (in a cool way) but thanks to some supporting and helpful friends, I beefed up and did the damn thing
I’m a smidge emotional:
Webfests in general are hard for me due to money and stupid REJECTION SENSITIVITY (in a cool way) but thanks to some supporting and helpful friends, I beefed up and did the damn thing
I’m a smidge emotional:
This might sound like IM over award shows and webfests but im not because i love attention but also we should do a charity softball game
July 6, 2025 at 3:09 PM
This might sound like IM over award shows and webfests but im not because i love attention but also we should do a charity softball game
A few collaborative but still competitive alternatives for those who are over award shows and webfests:
Invitational Charity Softball Game
Battle of the Bands: Live Sound Design
24 hour marathon GMing (a la 50s dance halls)
One Year Later but for AP
“We put a bunch of horror fans in the woods”
Invitational Charity Softball Game
Battle of the Bands: Live Sound Design
24 hour marathon GMing (a la 50s dance halls)
One Year Later but for AP
“We put a bunch of horror fans in the woods”
July 6, 2025 at 3:05 PM
A few collaborative but still competitive alternatives for those who are over award shows and webfests:
Invitational Charity Softball Game
Battle of the Bands: Live Sound Design
24 hour marathon GMing (a la 50s dance halls)
One Year Later but for AP
“We put a bunch of horror fans in the woods”
Invitational Charity Softball Game
Battle of the Bands: Live Sound Design
24 hour marathon GMing (a la 50s dance halls)
One Year Later but for AP
“We put a bunch of horror fans in the woods”
Scrapbook like there's no tomorrow.
May 7, 2025 at 2:08 PM
Scrapbook like there's no tomorrow.
There’s still a lot of webfests left in the year, but it’s crazy that we’re currently #8 in the Audio Fiction World Cup. There’s so many talented projects we’re amongst. We love what we do and it’s an honor to do it 🫶
Congratulations to everyone else as well!!
Congratulations to everyone else as well!!
The initial 2025 Audio Fiction World Cup rankings are here!
This time of year has a *lot* of festival announcements. We'll post an updated ranking mid Sept. Expect lots of ranking movement for the rest of the year!
#AudioFiction #ActualPlay #FictionPodcast #AudioDrama #AFWC
This time of year has a *lot* of festival announcements. We'll post an updated ranking mid Sept. Expect lots of ranking movement for the rest of the year!
#AudioFiction #ActualPlay #FictionPodcast #AudioDrama #AFWC
September 1, 2025 at 3:22 AM
There’s still a lot of webfests left in the year, but it’s crazy that we’re currently #8 in the Audio Fiction World Cup. There’s so many talented projects we’re amongst. We love what we do and it’s an honor to do it 🫶
Congratulations to everyone else as well!!
Congratulations to everyone else as well!!
Huge shout out to our patrons! Those funds have directly enabled us to submit the show for webfests/awards to allow the incredible work done by the cast and crew to be spotlighted! Thank you all so much for your support and please, look forward as we approach the finale of Season One.
April 22, 2025 at 2:16 AM
Huge shout out to our patrons! Those funds have directly enabled us to submit the show for webfests/awards to allow the incredible work done by the cast and crew to be spotlighted! Thank you all so much for your support and please, look forward as we approach the finale of Season One.
6 months of episodes, 12 in total released since August of 2025.
10 nominations/selections between 3 separate webfests.
One OUTSTANDING win from the 9th Annual Hollywood Series 🏆
Not a bad way to start out. Thank you to all who listened and downloaded - we return on January 8!
10 nominations/selections between 3 separate webfests.
One OUTSTANDING win from the 9th Annual Hollywood Series 🏆
Not a bad way to start out. Thank you to all who listened and downloaded - we return on January 8!
December 31, 2025 at 3:51 PM
6 months of episodes, 12 in total released since August of 2025.
10 nominations/selections between 3 separate webfests.
One OUTSTANDING win from the 9th Annual Hollywood Series 🏆
Not a bad way to start out. Thank you to all who listened and downloaded - we return on January 8!
10 nominations/selections between 3 separate webfests.
One OUTSTANDING win from the 9th Annual Hollywood Series 🏆
Not a bad way to start out. Thank you to all who listened and downloaded - we return on January 8!
I'm so stoked The Corner of Pleasure and West River has been accepted to every Webfest so far. If Know Gods, No Afters is a little dark for you, why not check out this series?
July 24, 2025 at 1:58 PM
I'm so stoked The Corner of Pleasure and West River has been accepted to every Webfest so far. If Know Gods, No Afters is a little dark for you, why not check out this series?
At the start of this year, our goals were simple, reach 10k listens, and it looks like we'll hit that before our 2 year mark. The awards are great, webfests are fun, but this is what does it for me.
Thank you Heartistics!
(I've just been informed by legal to not call people Heartistics)
(I've just been informed by legal to not call people Heartistics)
May 25, 2025 at 1:29 PM
At the start of this year, our goals were simple, reach 10k listens, and it looks like we'll hit that before our 2 year mark. The awards are great, webfests are fun, but this is what does it for me.
Which is pretty common. Rainbow doesn't disclose judges or what shows are measured by. Some webfests will list judges but not all. Mostly to make sure no one gets harassed.
May 1, 2025 at 3:04 PM
Which is pretty common. Rainbow doesn't disclose judges or what shows are measured by. Some webfests will list judges but not all. Mostly to make sure no one gets harassed.
NZ Webfest was one of my favorites from last year. Went incredibly smoothly and I got to be on online panels that were way outta my league. If you're wondering about webfests, this is a good one.
We’re two weeks out from our first submission deadline, but why wait?
Get your #podcasts #shortfilms and #webseries in while the gettin’s good, at filmfreeway.com/NZWebFest
🚦🛴🧭🛴🚦
Get your #podcasts #shortfilms and #webseries in while the gettin’s good, at filmfreeway.com/NZWebFest
🚦🛴🧭🛴🚦
March 18, 2025 at 9:38 PM
NZ Webfest was one of my favorites from last year. Went incredibly smoothly and I got to be on online panels that were way outta my league. If you're wondering about webfests, this is a good one.
I dunno y'all. With the flurry of webfests these last few months, winning some awards, passing our listener count goals, the paxu panel, secret opportunities, and now our series being finished within a week. I'm feeling so many things. And most of it is gratitude.
December 14, 2024 at 2:43 PM
I dunno y'all. With the flurry of webfests these last few months, winning some awards, passing our listener count goals, the paxu panel, secret opportunities, and now our series being finished within a week. I'm feeling so many things. And most of it is gratitude.
So before we figured out webfests, we applied to a single FilmFest. Didn't even have an AP category. I'm so overjoyed that this series has gone so many places.
Multi award winning #ttrpg podcast? Couldn't be us.
October 31, 2024 at 3:03 PM
So before we figured out webfests, we applied to a single FilmFest. Didn't even have an AP category. I'm so overjoyed that this series has gone so many places.
This also means (optionally) submitting to festivals or to community awards like the CRIT awards!
- oftentimes you need to pay to submit to webfests
- marketing for the webfests/awards
- getting to the webfests if you can
- editing reels and staying with in the fest’s guidelines 7/16
- oftentimes you need to pay to submit to webfests
- marketing for the webfests/awards
- getting to the webfests if you can
- editing reels and staying with in the fest’s guidelines 7/16
November 12, 2025 at 3:45 AM
This also means (optionally) submitting to festivals or to community awards like the CRIT awards!
- oftentimes you need to pay to submit to webfests
- marketing for the webfests/awards
- getting to the webfests if you can
- editing reels and staying with in the fest’s guidelines 7/16
- oftentimes you need to pay to submit to webfests
- marketing for the webfests/awards
- getting to the webfests if you can
- editing reels and staying with in the fest’s guidelines 7/16
All of the webfest nominations and wins we've announced for "The Fourth Age" throughout the year wouldn't have been possible without us entering and being a grant recipient for 2025.
If you're wanting to submit to webfests and cost stops you at times, highly recommend entering your APs to this!! 🤍
If you're wanting to submit to webfests and cost stops you at times, highly recommend entering your APs to this!! 🤍
Previous winners have received more than 100 nominations and three dozen awards at festivals on four continents. Now it's your turn! The Tabletop Arts Fund is proud to announce our 2026 Actual Play Grants.
📅 Submissions close October 31, 2025.
👉 Apply now: apply.tabletoparts.fund/ActualPlay2026
📅 Submissions close October 31, 2025.
👉 Apply now: apply.tabletoparts.fund/ActualPlay2026
September 30, 2025 at 10:09 PM
All of the webfest nominations and wins we've announced for "The Fourth Age" throughout the year wouldn't have been possible without us entering and being a grant recipient for 2025.
If you're wanting to submit to webfests and cost stops you at times, highly recommend entering your APs to this!! 🤍
If you're wanting to submit to webfests and cost stops you at times, highly recommend entering your APs to this!! 🤍
I’m also beyond grateful to @tabletopartsfund.org and the Digital Audio Fiction World Cup for even doing what they do because what they do will eventually have big impacts in the AP space. And I’m not just saying that because I’m a recipient, I genuinely believe in it. Webfests gotta do better tho.
April 23, 2026 at 3:34 PM
I’m also beyond grateful to @tabletopartsfund.org and the Digital Audio Fiction World Cup for even doing what they do because what they do will eventually have big impacts in the AP space. And I’m not just saying that because I’m a recipient, I genuinely believe in it. Webfests gotta do better tho.
Considering the abysmal handling of Actual Plays this Webfest season, I made a little rant. Baltimore screwed up, Cusco wasn’t any better. So, have a little rant.
youtu.be/fOqP5kM-CwU
youtu.be/fOqP5kM-CwU
Do Webfests Like Actual Plays?
YouTube video by Products of Thought by Amaan
youtu.be
April 23, 2026 at 3:34 PM
Considering the abysmal handling of Actual Plays this Webfest season, I made a little rant. Baltimore screwed up, Cusco wasn’t any better. So, have a little rant.
youtu.be/fOqP5kM-CwU
youtu.be/fOqP5kM-CwU