Deborah Ann Woll says Tales from Woodcreek season 2 is 'Clue at the Overlook Hotel'

The D&D actual play trades a cursed village for a 1920s murder mystery in season 2 Deborah Ann Woll and filmmaker Ed Gass-Donnelly didn't sit down and decide to make a Dungeons & Dragons campaign set in a haunted colonial village. But when they stepped foot inside Toronto's Black Creek Pioneer Village with a loose idea in mind, the pair found themselves enchanted by the weathered schoolhouse, creaking staircases, and centuries-old buildings. The deeper they explored, the more the location revealed the story they wanted to tell. The fictional town of Woodcreek grew naturally out of a very real, very spooky place. Tales from Woodcreek was born. “We just got so inspired by the place,” Gass-Donnelly told Polygon shortly after season 1 began airing. “Because this was a site-specific place and show, we really tailored a lot of the adventure to the location,” Woll added. The 2025 series followed a tight-knit trio of adventurers — played by Anjali Bhimani alongside Dungeon Dudes creators Monty Martin and Kelly McLaughlin — as they worked to unravel the mystery of a centuries-old witch's curse hanging over Woodcreek. But Tales from Woodcreek almost never feels like a traditional actual play