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Rach and Rich bring on Madjay Brown of Diceology and Mark Diaz Truman of Magpie Games to talk about ways to get the best out of an Apocalypse World game. Join us for a deep dive into an RPG we all love. Timecodes: 0:05:29 - Apocalypse World for players 0:05:51 - Our Favorite Playbooks 0:11:29 - Some Great Basic Moves 0:21:13 - Apocalypse World for the MCs 0:30:11 - Challenges to Consider 0:37:18 - War Stories (from games we've played) You can find Madjay Brown's show here: https://www.diceology.com/ Madjay's Patreon is here: https://www.patreon.com/madjayzero You can find Mark Diaz Truman's work here: https://magpiegames.com/

Rach and Rich bring on Paul Beakley of the Indie Game Reading Club blog to talk about ways to kick off a new PbtA game for friends or strangers (who are just friends you haven't met yet)! Timecodes: 0:10:33 - Poll Your Table 0:15:31 - First Session Stuff 0:20:26 - Building Consensus 0:23:17 - Ongoing Games 0:27:07 - Using Fronts and Playbooks for setup The IGRC blog: https://www.indiegamereadingclub.com/ Paul's Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/igrc/posts

Rach and Rich bring on Jeremy Strandberg to talk about his game Stonetop, which is on Kickstarter until the end of March. Timecodes: 0:01:14 - Read a Sitch about making long-term travel in games fun and meaningful 0:13:04 - Open Your Brain to Stonetop 0:22:47 - Act Under Fire with Sheriff Pleswyn and Anywyn the Would-Be Hero The Stonetop Kickstarter can be found here: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1735046512/stonetop

Rach and Rich bring on Epidiah Ravocol to talk about his game Wolfspell. Timecodes: 0:01:42 - Read a Sitch about how PbtA can help play over the internet! 0:08:29 - Open Your Brain to Wolfspell 0:19:39 - Act Under Fire with two newbie wolves Eppy's website where you can find Wolfspell and other wonders: https://www.worldswithoutmaster.com/

Rich interviews Alexi Sergeant of Cloven Pines Games about his new Zinequest Kickstarter for Back Again from the Broken Land. Timecodes: 0:01:22 - Read a Sitch about How Best to Ask Questions and Build on the Answers in PbtA games 0:08:16 - Open Your Brain to Back Again From the Broken Land 0:15:22 - Act Under Fire with 'Lil Plussy Check out the Kickstarter here: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/clovenpinegames/back-again-from-the-broken-landzinequest

Rach and Rich interview Jess and Alex of Wannabe Games about their game Moonpunk. Timecodes: 0:02:46 - Read a Sitch about using PbtA in the classroom 0:07:11 - Open Your Brain to Moonpunk 0:19:51 - Act Under Fire with Plussy and Prof. Hazel Purchase Moonpunk on DriveThru RPG (aff): https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/308781/MoonPunk?affiliate_id=78493 GCOG info link here: https://www.gauntlet-rpg.com/gauntlet-community-open-gaming.html

Rach and Rich talk about the lessons they learned playing and running PbtA games in 2020, and they make their Gamer Resolutions for 2021. Timecodes: 01:41 - Rich's Gaming Highlights 10:17 - Rach's Gaming Highlights 28:13 - Rich's Lessons Learned in 2020 38:55 - Rach's Lessons Learned in 2020 45:36 - Rich and Rach's 2021 Gamer Resolutions

Rich interviews Paul Stefko of Nothing Ventured Games about Iron Edda. Timecodes: 0:01:14 - Read a Sitch about converting other RPG settings to PbtA 0:12:37 - Open Your Brain to Iron Edda: World of Metal and Bone 0:21:55 - Act Under Fire with the Berzerker Plussy! Purchase Iron Edda: World of Metal and Bone on DriveThru RPG (aff): https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/152277/Iron-Edda-World-of-Metal-and-Bone?affiliate_id=78493 You can support Paul and see lots more of his games on his Patreon here: https://www.patreon.com/PaulStefko

Trophy RPG is now available for preorder! Check out the Trophy preorder store here.

In this special episode Trophy author Jesse Ross sits down with Trophy publisher Jason Cordova to announce the preorders, give an update on the state of the project, and talk about some of the additions and refinements that are being made to Trophy since it was originally released in Codex.

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Rich interviews returning guest Blake Ryan about his new Kickstarter Season of Dreams. Timecodes: 0:01:30 - Read a Sitch about checking in with your table to help keep it healthy 0:08:25 - Open Your Brain to Season of Dreams 0:16:55 - Act Under Fire with Pine the Tree Spirit Check out the Season of Dreams on Kickstarter: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1199830675/season-of-dreams-roleplaying-game