Sam Bradley is a writer and podcaster.
He is the co-host of the Starter Set Dungeons & Dragons podcast and the creator of the Tales of Tarthage crime drama podcast. Starter Set - A Dungeons & Dragons podcast serves as a guide to new players trying the game for the first time while providing veteran players with customised ‘homebrewed’ content and discussions on narrative implications of the game.
The show, which releases new episodes every Friday on the Robot’s Radio podcast network, is presented by Ed Silvester and Sam Bradley. Tales of Tarthage is a D&D inspired crime drama set in the fictional city of Tarthage. The show follows the lives of four members of an Extraordinary Crimes Unit as they investigate a series of murders in the build up to an election. The show examines the human stories and themes of economic struggle, corruption and the war on crime in an otherwise fantastical setting. It draws inspiration from the work of David Simon, Jed Mercurio and JRR Tolkien, as well as real stories from members of the UK law enforcement community. It’s first season concluded in May 2021 and was well received. Season 2 will begin August 2021 with more seasons planned for 2022 and beyond.
Starter Set Studio is a small content creation platform used by Ed Silvester and Sam Bradley to publish work that complements the Wizards of the Coast Tabletop Roleplaying Game, Dungeons & Dragons. Their current published works are the Starter Set Manual of Homebrew Heroes which contains four brand new playable races, and the People’s Republic of Aqualibrium Map which allows players to set their own adventures in the city homebrewed during the Making a Metropolis series on Starter Set.
Episodes of both Tales of Tarthage and Starter Set can be found everywhere podcasts are available: https://open.spotify.com/show/017DIgzgMJkvxOru4rywNr
