About

Pest Control is an actual-play Hope & Horror show created by friends and collaborators Sam Richardson (he/him), William White (they/them), Jonas Newhouse (they/them), and Sam Darr (she/they), and produced by AltHaven. The show features an original score, fully-mixed immersive sound design, and complex characters struggling through problems both magical and mundane. New episodes are released every other Sunday anywhere podcasts can be found.

It primarily uses the popular “Monster of the Week” system by Michael Sands and Evil Hat Productions, while also dipping into other indie tabletop games like Everest Pipkin’s “The Ground Itself”, Ben Robbins’ “Kingdom”, and more.

The show’s titular first season - retroactively renamed “Fate” - was a 15-episode series produced as a livestream between March and December of 2019 for the AltHaven TTRPG Network YouTube channel. The recently-completed second season, “Norfork”, marked the show’s shift into podcast production, and ran from Oct 2022 to Feb 2025. It’s upcoming season three, Scionwood, starts June 1st, 2025!