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Ian Mauldin
@maudlingames.com
🦐 Shrimp and Crits podcast
✍️ ttrpg design
🎸 Musician
👨‍🦲 he/him

https://linktr.ee/ianmauldin
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On Nov 24th - Dec 21st, The Monster’s Playbook and many other podcasters and creatives are raising money on behalf of @feedingamerica.org.
We’ll be playing Jackbox Games on Nov 24th at 7pm CST on our twitch channel to kick off our fundraising event.
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The Monster's Playbook on Instagram: "On Nov 24th - Dec 21st, The Monster’s Playbook and many other podcasters and creatives are raising money on behalf of @feedingamerica. We’ll be playing Jackbox ...
Get involved in the Podcasters Fight Hunger campaign by supporting The Monsters Playbook's fundraising efforts on Twitch, featuring live streams and Jackbox Games on November 24th. The event aims to m...
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November 22, 2025 at 11:49 PM
We all need to get weird every once in a while. Back Absurdia now!
Live now on Backerkit!

Absurdia is a love letter to classic and contemporary absurdist works like Welcome to Night Vale, Alice in Wonderland, and Gravity Falls in #TTRPG form.

Subvert normalcy. Embrace chaos. Get weird.

Back today 👁️
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Absurdia: The (Meta)Physical Edition
An absurdist tabletop roleplaying game about the inane hilarity and mundane horror of everyday life, inspired by Welcome to Night Vale, Alice in Wonderland, and Gravity Falls.
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September 17, 2025 at 5:00 PM
As someone who has been constantly writing worlds since I was about 7 or 8 years old, this is the best compliment I could possibly receive. 🥲
No joke, @shrimpandcrits.com season 2 may be the best worldbuilding in a podcast I've ever heard.
August 29, 2025 at 5:50 PM
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If you’re a #TTRPG creator with a Patreon page, please do this survey and state that you’re opposed to the use of AI! We need to nip this in the bud ASAP.

The survey takes 2 minutes and will hopefully have a big impact if enough of us submit strongly negative opinions!
August 16, 2025 at 12:21 AM
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OOPS! This is embarrassing.
Yesterday was our 5 YEAR Pod anniversary! 🦐🎉

Thank you all so much for listening over the years, we can't wait to share even more games and stories with you in the future!
August 4, 2025 at 5:56 PM
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PATRONS! Tune in as three *unconventional* treasure seekers try to outbid one another and stake their claim on a menagerie of mysterious, possibly even lucrative (?) storage containers. Will the cream rise to the top? Or will they crash out and close up shop?

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July 22, 2025 at 4:13 PM
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Incredibly excited to announce that Absurdia, my TTRPG love letter to classic and contemporary works of absurdism like Welcome to Night Vale, Alice in Wonderland, and Gravity Falls, is coming to Backerkit this fall!

Subvert normalcy. Embrace chaos. Make it weird.

Follow today 👁️
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Get Ready for Absurdia: The (Meta)Physical Edition
From Quinn Majeski - Get Ready for Absurdia: The (Meta)Physical Edition
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July 28, 2025 at 4:00 PM
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Happy Birthday to the brilliant and talented @maudlingames.com! 🦐🎉
June 15, 2025 at 7:16 PM
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Celebrating our CRIT awards nomination, two years since our campaign and a year since release: Triangle Agency is on sale for the first time!

This month, you can get the Triangle Agency core rulebook for only $45! That's 25% off normal price.

shop.hauntedtable.games/products/tri...
Triangle Agency (PHYSICAL BOOK + DIGITAL PDF)
Welcome to the first job of the rest of your life! This purchase comes with Triangle Agency (Digital Edition) immediately. "The best game I've ever read" - Rowan Zeoli, Polygon "Top to bottom, Triangl...
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June 3, 2025 at 2:50 PM
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Oh gosh, I have been nominated for a CRIT award. If you want, you can vote for me or for one of these other lovely humans at the link below! Or you can just affectionately tease me about not knowing Pathfinder 1e's mechanics, like my beloved @badheroescast.com cast ❤️
June 2, 2025 at 11:00 PM
Let’s do a Star War! I’m excited for this one.
The Light Side crew are returning for a #MayThe4th one-shot!

Join a Jedi outcast, a scoundrel and a bleeping droid as they embark on another #StarWars like #TTRPG adventure 🔫

Live streaming Sunday 4 May: 6pm EDT / 3pm PDT (Monday 10am NZST) on twitch.tv/seroRPG
May 3, 2025 at 4:51 PM
This pic of me goes HARD.
April 7, 2025 at 5:13 PM
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@baddiebards.bsky.social is truly our collective dream come true. We pour a lot of love into what we do, the stories we tell.

Please consider nominating us for the following categories! 💜🧡
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April 2, 2025 at 10:39 PM
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It’s #CritAwards season! We made some rad stuff this past year and would love if folks would consider nominating us for any or all of the categories below 👁️

Nominations can be submitted here!
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April 1, 2025 at 7:11 PM
Howdy Y’all! Nominate all your favorite pod friends for all these great awards. I’ll be reposting a bunch of these from shows that I know and love.

I’m particularly proud of my voice work for Joe Crumb and his song “The Skywaymen” so please consider us for best lyrical song!
Hey y'all! You may have heard its time for the #CritAwards!

We've had so much fun making our show for you over the years and would love it if you could help us by nominating the show for some awards in the AP Space!

You can nominate Shrimp and Crits here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
April 2, 2025 at 10:12 PM
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CRIT Award nominations are open! We humbly present some of the categories that Bad Heroes is eligible for 🐍

www.critawards.org
April 2, 2025 at 9:50 PM
This is gonna be GREAT
March 19, 2025 at 5:32 AM
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Guys you should listen to shrimp and crits, it’s so great. It totally won’t have you crying over characters at 5 in the morning
December 30, 2024 at 4:49 AM
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S3 E1 - The Case of the White Knight
Welcome to Arborealis, a dense urban jungle full of secrets and schemes. Through its streets flows the Mist: an otherworldly force that keeps Sleepers unaware of the awakened Rifts that walk amongst them.

Listen here! 🕵️
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March 11, 2025 at 2:05 PM
So proud of this episode. You’re missing out if you aren’t listening to Riptide.
The words of man are murkier than their actions. The trawlers uncover secrets and brandish their wounds for all to see.

The penultimate episode of “Riptide” is out now. Exclusively on Patreon.
February 25, 2025 at 7:44 PM
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Fuck Elon Musk
January 24, 2025 at 4:23 AM
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From the tourist filled beaches of Gullacochica! to the looming sky cities of Dania. From the barren moons of Arcadia to the surreal attractions of Whimsy World, thanks for traveling with us!

Thank you from the bottom of our shrimpy hearts for downloading our show 150,000 times! 🎉🦐
December 31, 2024 at 10:36 PM
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The Great Monster Make-Off is now on Youtube!

(Early 2024) 3 Keepers (GMs) from popular actual play podcasts competed against each other to receive praise from the Monster Daddy himself—Michael Sands, creator of the TTRPG Monster of the Week.

Great British Bake Off meets MotW youtu.be/MlMUQ829BF4
The Great Monster Make-Off - A Monster of the Week Game Show
YouTube video by seroRPG
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December 30, 2024 at 8:23 AM
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If you want to get your favorite podcasts a gift for the holidays at no cost to you, write a review and rate the shows you love on the podcatcher of your choice!
a woman is looking at a pink cell phone with a barbie logo on it .
Alt: Margot Robbie is looking at a pink cell phone with a barbie logo on it. She reviews with 5 stars and smiles.
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December 11, 2024 at 5:32 PM
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The finale of Starsick is now available on Youtube!

Our protagonists return to Pillory, New England as successful adults, for their 10 year high school reunion. What they didn't expect—but the audience surely did—is to be reunited with the insidious Yonder...

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Starsick: Episode 3 - A Monster of the Week Mini-Series
YouTube video by seroRPG
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December 11, 2024 at 1:03 AM