What do the Vær listen to in their off time?

Creating an audio drama like Counterbalance is a time consuming task for the Production spirits. And sometimes, they too need to lean back and just listen to other shows to clear their heads.

The bellow is a curated list of Fantasy and Scifi Podcast recommended by the Kessir-Production Spirit itself. Why not catch up to those in the meantime?

Fantasy

Second Shift

Second Shift follows an ambitious, character-centric story arc about three college students from Boston who find themselves “shifted” against their will to another world. They must find their place in that world while trying to return to theirs.

The Lucky Die

The Lucky Die is a 5e D&D Actual Play Podcast, that utilises the drama inherent in the ruleset of a roleplaying game to tell a dark and dramatic improvised tale. Edited for audio quality and beautifully scored, TLD focuses on four heavily flawed characters as they try to stop the apocalypse, and make right the wrongs in their own lives.

The Once And Future Nerd

THE ONCE AND FUTURE NERD is a serialized audiodrama podcast about three teenagers from modern-day Pennsylvania who find themselves trapped in a High Fantasy world full of powerful magic and feudal intrigue. Will they survive their new surroundings long enough to get back home? Will their genre-awareness be an asset or a liability? And what is it like to be a rabbit?

The Call of the Flame

An epic fantasy, in Audio Drama format. The journey of Bri, and her travels along with her Orc, Elvan, Dwarven, and Halfin companions as she seeks to redeem her father, for murdering the Chieftan of Gods, and restore the balance of magic in the world.

Dark Dice

Dark Dice is a horror actual-play D&D podcast that uses immersive soundscapes to create an added layer of immersion. Six travelers embark on a journey into the ruinous domain of the Nameless God. They will never be the same again.

Alba Salix – Royal Physician

The award-winning fantasy-comedy! In Alba Salix, overworked, cynical witch Alba tends to the health of the King, Queen and citizens of the kingdom of Farloria, with the help of her obnoxious apprentice Magnus and an absent-minded fairy named Holly. The spinoff The Axe & Crown follows the misadventures of Gubbin the troll tavernkeeper, his clueless landlord Stan and his shady niece Betula.

Aethuran Dark Saga

Imagine Game of Thrones merged with Witcher but with a horror spin. Aethuran Dark Saga has often been branded a dramatized audiobook as the richness of the world portrayed puts it miles ahead of many other podcasts. This show takes no prisoners and immerses the listener in a dismal gritty world drenched in blood and filled with wailings of its inhabitants. It’s as gripping as it is unforgiving, written and acted with true passion and attention to detail, which is going to make your heart grow with compassion towards the characters, only to shatter it to pieces a minute later. In this world, evil is more frequently rewarded than good deeds and not a single person is exempt from suffering a gruesome death. If you’re into dark fantasy, this is probably the best show out there for you to check.

Sidequesting

Sidequesting is an award-winning scripted fiction podcast about avoiding the main plot and doing sidequests instead. It follows Rion, an adventurer who’s willing to help anyone out – as long as they’re not being asked to deal with the scary wizard that everyone keeps talking about.

Inn Between

Inn Between is an audio drama podcast, a fantasy-adventure between adventures, wherein five heroes encounter monsters, magic, fighting, and friendship in the conveniently located Goblin’s Head Inn.

Ordinary Epic

A comedic audio drama about found families, role-playing games, dungeons, and (occasionally) dragons.

Caravan

CARAVAN is a story about getting through Hell with the people you love. When Samir and his best friend Carlyle take a camping trip to the Canyon, they don’t plan on getting caught in a thunderstorm. Even worse, they don’t plan on Samir falling into the Canyon. When he wakes up, Samir finds himself in a new world, where ghosts, demons, vampires, and other monsters terrorize the locals like any villains in a western. Samir joins up with a caravan—a vigilante train of supernatural bounty hunters—to delve deep into the Canyon depths, and find a way out of Hell once and for all.

Aethuran Dark Saga

Imagine Game of Thrones merged with Witcher but with a horror spin. Aethuran Dark Saga has often been branded a dramatized audiobook as the richness of the world portrayed puts it miles ahead of many other podcasts. This show takes no prisoners and immerses the listener in a dismal gritty world drenched in blood and filled with wailings of its inhabitants. It’s as gripping as it is unforgiving, written and acted with true passion and attention to detail, which is going to make your heart grow with compassion towards the characters, only to shatter it to pieces a minute later. In this world, evil is more frequently rewarded than good deeds and not a single person is exempt from suffering a gruesome death. If you’re into dark fantasy, this is probably the best show out there for you to check.

Sci-Fi