Happy Halloween! Join us for some a silly and spooky game, a dramatic reading about witches, and some questions from listeners!

• 0:04:35 - Q&A (Running Games)
• 0:41:50 - Spooky Poetry
• 0:50:30 - Q&A (Creating SCQ)
• 1:19:36 - Q&A (The Lore of SCQ)
• 1:38:10 - Spooky Gameshow

Give us a shout at SCQ-371-LOUD! (SCQ-371-LOVE is the same number, if you like that better?)

Mason Amadeus is a podcaster and all-terrain professional bodge technician. To find out what that means, check out his site.

Want to learn more about Ty, the host (and GM and producer and editor and...) of SCQ?

Mentioned During the Show

• Take a look at our good freakin' website.
• Find us on Discord.
• Looking for a good TTRPG to play for Halloween? Check out Murderous Ghosts!
• Read "The Star Pattern", an essay about a pitfall of running games.
• Read more about Curse of Strahd, a well-known vampire Dungeons & Dragons campaign.
• Mason mentioned No Man's Sky? I don't remember the context, but hey, it looks fun!

Want to read up on the SCQ lore Ty mentioned?

• Seasons
• The Wall
• The Circle
• Or just peruse our whole lore library!

Want those podcasting tools we talked about?

• Reaper is a powerhouse editor that is free (but well worth the $60 they ask you to pay).
• Audacity is a great, simple, and free option.
• Squadcast.fm is good for recording podcasts remotely.
• Pinecast is a wonderful, reliable place to upload your podcast! It's been SCQ's home from the beginning. Use our referral code to get 40% off for 4 months: r-7098b2
• YouTube's Creator Studio has free music and sound effects.
• Freesound.org has (surprise!) lots of free audio!
• So does Zapsplat!
• Storyblocks isn't free, but its what SCQ mostly uses nowadays.
• Krotos has a pretty good free library, plus tons of paid ones.

Have questions for us, or just want to say hi?

• Website: Contact form or Press Kit
• Email: [email protected]
• Instagram: @SCQpodcast
• Discord: Side Character Quest
• LinkTree: SideCharacterQuest
• Voicemail or Text: SCQ-371-LOUD

Additional Credits

Thanks to Autumn for providing the artwork for Side Character Quest!

Thanks to Briar for lending a voice to our credits! To hear more, check out one of Briar's own side character quests as Deirdre, a monster hunting cleric!

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