Eric Silver

Podcasts, games, teaching, and finding the best way to do all three.

Podcasts

Podcasts I’m Currently Producing

Join the Party: an actual play podcast with tangible worlds, genre-pushing storytelling, and collaborators who make each other laugh each week.

I’m the best Game Master in podcasting. Everyone’s saying this.

Attach Your Resume: Interviews with online creators about how their jobs work and how they got there. Hear the personal stories behind seismic events in digital media and learn what concrete steps we can take to build a sustainable media landscape.

Season 2, releasing in May 2025, is supported with a grant from Patreon.
Notable interviews I’ve conducted: Taylor Lorenz, Ryan Broderick, David Roth

Former Head of Development at Multitude

I was responsible for the pre-production and development of the shows for the Multitude podcast collective and studio. I developed structure and unique ideas in defined podcast genres, I wrote show and episode descriptions, and encouraged smart community development with social media and Patreon.

The shows I have created, developed, and produced have amassed over 30 million downloads and garnered handfuls of awards. That includes shows for Netflix, SONY Music, and Defector. Adding in the shows I’ve consulted on and helped develop behind the scenes — all of the Multitude shows and many beyond — that’s many millions of downloads more.

Podcast Writing

How-to articles at Descript

Resources at Multitude

Podcasts I’ve Produced and Developed

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Games

Model Our Nations

This is Model Our Nations, a TTRPG about a secret meeting of the world government. MON is a GM-less TTRPG with worldbuilding and character-creation stages. Can be used as a standalone one-shot or as a part of a larger campaign setting, just adjust the worldbuilding step.

No Capes: A D&D Reskinning and Superhero Guide

What if you want to play within a modern world, populated by superheroes? This guide can help you on your way as you flesh out your powered world!

This guide is perfect for DMs looking to expand outside of the high fantasy genre, players looking for exciting subclasses, and newcomers to D&D who are getting their heads around core differences of each class.

Hello, Lake Town City: A Superpowered City Worldbook

Have you wanted to run a TTRPG game in the world of Join the Party? Want to visit Lake Town City in your Masks game? Do you want the stats for a giant Mountain Lobster as a new NPC? Well, you're in luck! Join the Party Dungeon Master Eric Silver has written the definitive guide to Lake Town City for any and all TTRPG systems.

The Cool Cryptid Compendium

The Cryptid compendium is the system neutral manual with stats and descriptions of 20 different creatures from folklore around the world!

Three Short Games to Build Stories

f you’ve loved the ways that Join the Party has built their worlds with the input of the entire table, then you’re in luck. GM Eric Silver has published all of this worldbuilding games in one place, with instructions on how to play them at your table. This includes:

City Planner: build your campaign setting together from a tiny town to a grand metropolis

This Is What My Camp Is Like: build a town, camp, school, or smaller setting to get everyone on the same page before starting a campaign

Bro, You Had to Be There: build a dramatic story about something that happened when your main characters were doing something else

More Monsters to Mash: A MOTW Bestiary

Have you wanted to run a game of Monster of the Week but feel intimidated by coming up with incredible ideas? Aren’t sure how to make the stats for the monster of your dreams? Well Eric Silver, GM of Join the Party, has dealt with these same issues and is here to help! More Monsters to Mash contains plenty of monsters and custom moves to help you get your thoughts going!

Clear Eyes / Full Hearts

Build your high school persona and work through the drama of the football season and the town around you in this GM-less TTRPG for 2-6 players. Co-created by Eric Silver and Mischa Stanton

Teaching

I’m currently teaching as a professor of podcasting at Stony Brook University. The Lichenstein Center is like the storytelling department, and I’m honored that I get to help grow the podcasting curriculum inside of that collection of teaching stories.

Top 5 favorite things about being a professor: having your name on an office descriptor.

I took this photo on my first day of teaching in the Melville Library.

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ERIC SILVER

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