Insomniac had its work cut out for it with Spider-Man 2 . To say expectations were high going into this sequel is an understatement, buffered by both the first game's major success and the bridge between console generations that was Miles Morales. This new Spidey adventure had to take the best elements from those games, mix them with new characters, features, and stories, and produce the kind of game fans will talk about for years. Somehow, they did just that; Spider-Man 2 is, to get the easy pun out of the way early, amazing.
For the cast and crew of the Worlds Beyond Number D&D podcast, time is on their side
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Recovering legendary magic items, negotiating with world-shaking creatures that wield godlike powers, and facing the enormous apparatus of a wizarding empire. The team behind Worlds Beyond Number’s inaugural Dungeons & Dragons actual-play podcast, The Wizard, the Witch, and the Wild One, have seemingly done it all — and they’ve done it all while playing their characters at level 1. For producer and audio maestro Taylor Moore, it’s at times just a little bit more than he can believe. During the recording of an upcoming episode, Moore said, he literally ran from the sound booth to the door of the playspace during a break in the action.
“It was like in those disaster movies where a submarine is imploding,” Moore said. “They had been bottling up this energy watching those two goobers turn a conversation between a young woman and her mother figure — just a simple conversation about how they were feeling — into some of the most compelling audio that I’ve ever put through my earphones.”
Moore and the podcast’s stars (and co-owners) — Erika Ishii, Aabria Iyengar, Brennan Lee Mulligan, and Lou Wilson — are all veterans in the world of actual play. Moore first lent his talents to beloved podcasts Rude Tales of Magic, Fun City, and Oh These, Those Stars of Space. Mulligan has led Dimension 20 for five years with Wilson in the core cast, while Ishii and Iyengar have played everywhere from Critical Role to The Adventure Zone and beyond. But Worlds Beyond Number is the first project the team has owned outright. Combined with the indefinite length of the project, they’re freed from many of the limits of time and scope they often face — including how they play the game, and even where their characters begin the journey.
Because Worlds Beyond Number is played entirely in theater of the mind — as opposed to in a physical space, with miniatures on a map at the table — the cast can go anywhere and try anything. Rather than working from battle maps and graphics created by a production team ahead of time, Moore comes back around after the game has been played, adding lush, witty post-production sound, including composing original music that now in turn has inspired the players. “It’s like our recording is a bunch of words, and Taylor comes in with punctuation and frames it, and turns it into poetry,” said Iyengar.
They also have something that other actual-play troupes can only dream of — nearly unlimited time in-game. Their Patreon-exclusive Children’s Campaign took a unique path to character creation, playing eight episodes at what amounts to level 0 before reuniting as adults in the main campaign at first level — a level more than a few shows skip. For example, even Critical Role’s massive campaigns have never shown a
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