Unbalanced Encounters

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The only show that dares to ask: what if Delicious in Dungeon was yeehaw as hell? A twangy (award-winning) actual play dropping new episodes alt-Tuesdays over at https://uepodca.st

White enamel mug at a 3/4 angle, which reads: "PROFIT IS THEFT. I don't know what to tell you. It's not complicated. THEY'RE TAKING FROM US ALL THE DAMN TIME. WE DO ALL THE WORK in these stables AND THEY PAY US ENOUGH TO SURVIVE — I GUESS — THE BARE MINIMUM is considered an indignation for those ON HIGH"
9th Annual Hollywood Series Nomination 2025
+229% new audience +13% followers 6.7k listening hours
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The Misfortunate 4 seated on a hotel sofa in front of a window. From left: a gold-headed spear; a young man with spiky hair pours over a book with a tall man in purple and gold armor; a young woman with floor-length braids nestles into his arm, clutching a pillow and the hilt of her war hammer; a pale girl in gold eyes them all suspiciously. In the background, a pile of suitcases.
Thumbnail for TM4 Pt 2 - Bedroom Surprise Odion Osprey-Heronshaw, a young black man, stands awkwardly in a window on the left, looking into a dimly lit hotel bedroom. The title, "Bedroom Surprise" is emblazoned across the lower righthand corner of the image, and a decorative UE hallmark adorns the upper right corner in gold.
A screenshot of a Spotify comment: isaac 7 days ago "Finally, the best TTRPG podcast on spotify is back!"
Two boxes containing a UE hat and Tales of the Valiant, respectively. Framed by small pumpkins, UE logo stickers, and an empty glass water jug.
Waste & Wild cover art Upper right: an eldritch tentacled "Godslinger" wields a bone-handled rifle adorned with veins and strings. Lower left: an upside-down cowboy cocks an alien-inspired revolver with a cybernetic hand. In the background, flaming spaceships plummet. The "Waste & Wild" logo is emblazoned across a crumbling planet in the center.
PRE-SHOW STREAM OCTOBER 28th 6pm EDT https://www.youtube.com/live/Ac5YF1uhxUQ
The same cinematic poster cropped to phone size
Rendered preview of a cinematic poster for The Misfortunate 4. Character silhouettes from left: Odion Osprey-Heronshaw on a purple paint stripe, Cal Ironwater on a teal paint stripe, Weevil Woebringer on an umber paint stripe, and Ariana Floridia Osprey II on a gold paint stripe. All character silhouettes set behind a mountain emblazoned with "The Misfortunate 4." Followed by the Unbalanced Encounters logo, then credits: "Starring PATRICK PERINI • EMILY GREYMOORE •
CRAIG PATE • CINDERBLOCKSALLY • CAUSTIC PHOENIX / PRODUCED BY PATRICK PERINI • SABRINA ORTIZ SAFETY COORDINATOR SABRINA ORTIZ LOREKEEPER NICK PLAISANCE GAME DESIGN MASON ALLAN MUSIC BY SAYER ROBERTS ART BY SOUP THESUNDAYBAR"
A simple character sheet for Arianna Floridia "Flo" Osprey II, which reads: Level 3 Infernal Iron Godslinger STR 8 DEX 10 CON 18 / INT 10 WIS 8 CHA 16 Background: Courtier Heritage: Anointed Lineage: Elf? Armor Class: 14 Her character portrait depicts a young woman with alabaster skin, pitch-white hair, and golden eyes. Her black outfit is broken up by a leather waist corset and knee-high boots adorned with golden snake motifs. In her right hand is a snub-nosed revolver. A simple character sheet for Arianna Floridia "Flo" Osprey II, which reads: Level 3 Infernal Iron Godslinger STR 8 DEX 10 CON 18 / INT 10 WIS 8 CHA 16 Background: Courtier Heritage: Anointed Lineage: Elf? Armor Class: 14 Her character portrait depicts a young woman with alabaster skin, pitch-white hair, and golden eyes. Her black outfit is broken up by a leather waist corset and knee-high boots adorned with golden snake motifs. In her right hand is a snub-nosed revolver.
WINNER Best Actual Play Podcast SYDNEY WEB FEST 2025
A simple character sheet for Cal (of) Ironwater, which reads: Level 3 Nature Domain Cleric STR 14 DEX 14 CON 13 / INT 10 WIS 16 CHA 8 Background: Outcast Heritage: Wildlands Lineage: Human Armor Class: 16 Her character portrait depicts a young woman with tanned skin and ankle-length auburn braids. She is leaning nonchalantly against a giant sledge hammer and wears a simple blue-and-brown stablehand outfit over a chainmail shirt. Above her hovers Nicholas, a tiny griffin — half woodpecker and half house cat.
A simple character sheet for Odion Osprey-Heronshaw, which reads: Level 3 Weapon Master Fighter STR 16 DEX 12 CON 14 / INT 10 WIS 14 CHA 9 Background: Soldier Heritage: Supplicant Lineage: Elf Armor Class: 16 His character portrait depicts a young black man nervously hunched against his gold-tipped spear. He sports a combination of purple western wear and shiny silver-and-gold knight armor.
A simple character sheet for Weevil Woebringer, which reads: Level 3 Mote Tamer Wizard STR 10 DEX 14 CON 14 / INT 16 WIS 9 CHA 12 Background: Rustic Heritage: Coven Lineage: Human Armor Class: 14 His character portrait depicts a young, sallow man in monster-scale armor and steer-skull shin guards. He sports a magical satchel and is fist-bumping a plasmic shadow which climbs up from his feet.
Lightning strikes a mountain behind a logo reading "The Misfortunate 4."
A beige baseball cap featuring the "UE" Unbalanced Encounters logo embroidered in yellow and orange.
100,000 DOWNLOADS RALLY THANK YOU! Unbalanced Encounters
A portrait of Juniper Snowthorne preceded by "Juniper"
Illustration of a large lizard eye looking at the Rally player characters that are much smaller.
6 different character poses of Juniper Snowthorne. Quote reads: "guess who just got... traumaaaaa" by Soup
RALLY, NOMINEE - LAWEBFEST 2025 - BEST ENSEMBLE CAST
3 panel comic. Top left: a man holding his injured knee Bottom left: that man looking frightened Right: Guard, a ceramic automaton, looking menacing. He says: "It was nice playing with you, friend."
"Mr. Spinks" by Oricami Left: a green soft toy monitor lizard Right: a green monitor lizard in a bow
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2025 Cusco WebFest Official Selection - Best Actual Play - Podcast - Llama graphic
Unbalanced Encounters: Winner, Hollywood Series 2024, Best Actual Play Story
A sequence of award nomination reveals for 2024 Hollywood Series. Best Story (Actual Play), Best Director (Actual Play), Best Editing (Actual Play), Best Ensemble Cast (Actual Play), Best Actual Play. Music is "Rally" by Sayer Roberts, and can be found at https://patreon.com/unbalancedencounters
Spotify Wrapped for Creators. Unbalanced Encounters: Rally, 67% new listeners this year.
Spotify Wrapped for Creators. Unbalanced Encounters: Rally, Top Podcast for 202 fans.
Art is a job. And we undertake it with intention, both in the creations and the process of creating. In an effort to continue to do our job — of creating stories that we are proud of — our team has defined what is important to us: - Authenticity to ourselves, our stories, and our audience. It is easy to try and reach success by copying and mimicking. We will not take the easy path to growth if it means sacrificing our voices and values. We stand by our efforts to build with intention and sincerity. - Respect for our teams, our tables, and our community. No one should ever enter or leave our space feeling as though their time, energy, or feelings are unimportant to our team. We are committed to ensuring everyone feels cared for, heard, and respected in all of our interactions. - Quality from beginning to end. From our start we have aspired to produce an actual play that stands out for its craftsmanship. We continuously strive to learn, grow, and elevate our content. We will maintain and improve our processes to create polished projects that we are proud of. - Storytelling with heart, for everyone and by everyone. Storytelling is human, and humans span the spectrum of sexuality, race, gender identities, and ability. Accessibility and opportunity to those who are underrepresented in this community will be built into everything we do. We do not exist without compassionate, connected, and committed creators. - Grace and Empathy when tackling difficult subjects, in our games, at our tables, and beyond our screens. Our tables and teams will always have access to and share safety tools in order to protect the health of everyone we work with. We will always do our best to provide our community and audience with stories that tackle difficult real world subjects in a way that is genuine and thoughtful. When approaching these topics we will always give our team and audience proper content warnings and space for their feelings. [abridged for length]
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Open Casting Call: Unbalanced Encounters. Auditions are open August 1st through August 18th, 2024.
Still from a video: a small dragon, Mr. Spinx, in front of the Western Wealds, a temperate rainforest.
Plaque recommending Unbalanced Encounters for Best Podcast at the 2024 CRiT awards
Meaningless Patreon-generated image. Literally just the cover art. Apologies for making you read this.
Left: back of t-shirt, featuring "I FIGHT FOR THE TREES" flyer Right: porki, a pig god from Unbalanced Encounters, stamped on left lapel position
Acrylic pin of Mr. Spinx (a lizard from Unbalanced Encounters) screaming. He is pinned to a business card bearing the URL bit.ly/rallypod
Unbalanced Encounters reaching 100 followers
Acrylic pins of Mr. Spinx, a frilled lizard familiar from Unbalanced Encounters. He is screaming, for he knows not what the fuck is happening.
Soup's (aka TheSundayBar) take on a warforged getting dressed by some hedgehogs. Unbalanced Encounters.