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We had occasion to talk to game designer, and fellow interviewer; Brie Sheldon. We talked about what motivates them to create, why they interview people, and Brie even gave us some ideas for Two Sided Quest! We also tried out some slight modifications to our intro.
This week we square up to a Jotun for the first time with perhaps; too many plans. Enjoy this session of Dungeon World!
Session 1 of our Dungeon World game! And we open with so many good jokes! There is a small amount of background noise in this episode, but nothing to loud or persistent. But enjoy the Adventures of Gib and Claviovarsus! Two Adventurers thrust together by the chaos of fate.
We're playing Dungeon World again, and honestly it was a delight. Character creation, Setting generation, and picking a quest! All of that and a little bit more, in this session zero episode with Ellery, Fin, and Ray.
We took another look at Mars Colony, this time Ray was Kelly Perkins. We also used some strange political factions. Enjoy.
Melody is an awesome making of things. We know here from her work making RPGs, and the discussions she often has about them on twitter. We asked her on the show to share a little about her process, and her games.
Ben is a Maltese-Australian game designer with a background in video game design; but he also makes RPGs. We had him on to talk about his history, his process, and some of his games. It was a blast and we can't wait to play Ben's stuff.
A Duo is a conversational LARP for 2 players created by Ray Cox. In A Duo the location you play in will inform your setting. Allowing you to pick from a list of playsets. Ellery and Ray recently playtested some of the scenarios. Audio quality is a bit all over the place but we learned a lot by playing.
Party Fowl: The Game of Drunk Ducks is an area control game on a modular board where the goal is to be the coolest duck at a party. It sounds like a rad concept so we talked to two of the cool ducks behind this project; Spencer, and Caleb. Party Fowl is up on KickStarter right now, so if you want to support it please follow this link. https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/159466030/party-fowl-the-game-of-drunk-ducks
The finale of our adventures in Monsterhearts, for a little while at least. We had a discussion about our feelings on the game at the end of the episode rather than write up reflections; cause this was a short campaign. No new episode of the podcast on the 28th, as we will be on vacation.
This week we take a look at the school life of our boys, and deal with the fall out from the cliff top party. A reminder that there will be no early episode on the 25th, and no podcast episode on the 28th.
This week Vic, and Adam go to a party, and this get a bit full on in a game of Truth or Dare. There will be no new episode on the 28th as we will be on holiday.
[CONTENT WARNING: There is a brief mention of the struggles of dealing with depression, anxiety, and suicidal thoughts in this episode.] This week we interviewed an up and coming Game Designer from the States; DC. DC is working on an adaptation of Blades In The Dark, called Mutants In The Night. It's got some really interesting themes of community. And looks at many of the experiences of non dominant social groups; with a focus on African American, and Queer communities. We also talked about DC'...
This is the session Zero and session One of our short Monsterhearts game. The session zero includes discussions of what elements we want to look at, what themes we want to deal with, and what we want to avoid. We talk about racism, sexism, and violence. We discuss safety tools. Session One begins on in a dorm room, in a boys only boarding school, on an island. And the actually recording starts at 1h and 50m.
This week we explore the difficulties of fixing someone else's mistakes, difference of morality, family stress, and the complexity of building a new world. This is Mars Colony, a two person RPG by Tim C Koppang. This episode was recorded in a rather resonant space, but shouldn't be a problem to listen to. We hope you enjoy listening to this Two Person RPG.
We recently spoke with Jason Tasharski about their upcoming game Stand In Defiance, and how they first got interested in game design. It's lovely little interview, about an intriguing narrative game.
We were asked by Burning Games to play their new game about the colonisation of America by monsters who ride into war on dragons. It's meant to be a game that deals with issues of exploitation and prejudice but honestly; I don't think they take a hard enough stance. We had fun playing the game, so I hope you enjoy listening to us fumble our way through temples, and jungles, and strange monsters.
A mission recorder has been pulled out of a quarantined space station. A group of scientists watch the XP, searching for clues as to what happened to the mission that went into the zone.
We heard about an awesome game being made on Kickstarter recently, and we just had to talk to the designer. Fraser Simons is the creator of Hack The Planet; a cyberpunk climate fiction Blades Hack. He took the time out of this morning to chat with us about his cool new project. We're very excited to see Hack The Planet get released, for whole bunch of reasons. Including, some Australian writers are contributing to it!
Matthew Corrin and Morgan Lean have a kickstarter running right now for their new game, Bodycount. Bodycount is a hyperviolent cyberpunk roleplaying game, with a focus on dealing harm to anyone that stands in your way. We sat down with Matt to have a chat about the game, what spurred it's creation, and what influenced the designers.
This is the first episode of a new project from Ellery and Ray. In this ongoing series they will play Two Person Role Playing Games, and discuss what they learnt from playing them. The first game they played was A Single Moment, a game that attempts to emulate samurai movies about rival warriors. This episode does have an ad break in the middle of it. it finishes at 1 hour, 26 minutes, and 50 seconds.
Ellery, Caitlyn, Sofi, and Ray got together to playtest a bit of Angel Project. Angel Project is an upcoming RPG from the folks behind Magical Fury. You play potential members of an elite fighting group. And through the course of play become armed with special armoured fighting suits. It takes some elements of the magical girl genre and blends in more sci-fi elements, military hardware. For us a key touch stone was Bubblegum Crisis. We hope you like it; and if you have feedback on the game, let ...
We did a crossover of sorts recently. We had Lachlan from Fantasy Cartography on the show to play a little bit of The Deep Forest with us. It was a blast!
We had Vee and Hayley on the show to talk to us about their new Jane Austen RPG, Good Society. It was a pleasure catching up with them again. It's got some really interesting setup mechanics that help you tailor the game to your groups style. If you'd like to talk to them about all they have going on, why not head to Ettin Con?
Guest GM Lex come on to run us through our first game of Night Witches. Night Witches is an RPG by Jason Morningstar about Russian World War 2 bomber pilots, in an all Female unit. It's about the struggles they faced, the horrors they endured, and brave acts they performed. For this episode we had an all lady group of players, including a whole bunch of new people. This is also the first Actual Play where Rei has used their female pronouns; so join us in celebrating this episode of firsts. Thank...
We got the gang together to play Magical Fury again. This time we used the Scene structure the game lays out that we kinda ignored last time. It was actually pretty fantastic and ramped up the speed of play even further.
We wanted to share with you how we created the setting for our Blades in The Dark campaign, using a map drawing game called The Quiet Year. After we finished up the game Fin went and listened through the whole episode, extrapolating changes, and cutting the fat until we had a nice consistent setting. Then he drew us a kick ass map! We hope you all enjoy this look at a cool little thing we did.
It's the last episode of Blades In The Dark; of course the players don't know that. The Spectres are breaking into prison to break someone out of prison...and oh my, the prison is Bedlam. A warren of impetus infused restraints, cells, locks, and doors. Wardens with strange other worldly power. A space void of light, hope, and peace of mind. Hopefully the Spectres all get out safe!
We brought back a very special crew of players to try out a really silly micro rpg; Escape From Triassic Park! In this game you play as genetically re-engineered dinosaurs; trying to escape an amusement park you've been trapped in. Sofi, Ellery, and Caitlyn came along to try this out with Ray.
Happy holidays, this is the last episode of [insert quest here] for 2017. You're all wonderful people and we are looking forward to making content for you next year. New episodes will be back on the 8th of January. In this episode though Fazio is back in prison, and Zephira is trying to solve Nain's possession problem. The whole time setting up for a score in bedlam.
