Unlike Randi, Nathaniel Long is cool and always has been. His earliest exposure to RPGs was his brother’s Monstrous Compendium collection, featuring binders full of women, I mean monsters. This may explain why he is far happier reading about role-playing games than he is doing the bit where you’re supposed to play a role in a game. This guy doesn’t know a THAC0 from a taco, which I know sounds funny but is actually really sad when you see it in practice. Nevertheinspiteofthis, Nathaniel was able to parlay his skills as a terrible role-player into a side career as an insufferable actor, starring in all the classics, from Shakespeare to other plays by Shakespeare, and putting the “the” back in “community theatre.”

Nathaniel (pictured, right) also got a pair of shiny English Degrees, replete with all the money and tail that this guarantees. Despite some blind spots (like an inability to spell “theater” properly), he loves the language, and has even turned his hand to fiction and genre writing, which, it turns out, isn’t quite as easy as it looks, now is it, smart guy? Despite these various artistic pursuits, Nathaniel realized that his talents were being wasted, and that as a thin-skinned honky with strong opinions about comic books and movies, he owed it to the world to co-host a podcast. On the very, very rare occasions that he is not talking, Nathaniel enjoys traveling at ruinous personal expense, drawing, staring blankly at crosswords, and enjoying things.