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Rach and Rich kick off their first Summer Series. This series will cover games in the Belonging Outside Belonging (BOB) style of PbtA games. This first episode features Avery Alder, creator of Dream Askew, the first BOB game. (we even renamed the segments!) Timecodes: 0:01:19 - Spend a Token... to hear Avery talk about the history and design goals of Dream Askew 0:12:59 - You Also Play As The... person leaning about Dream Askew 0:21:56 - No Dice, No Masters... a demo of Dream Askew's setting creation Avery's talk on Designing in Dialogue With Other Games: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vQr0d9nvSEk

Rach and Rich bring on Paul Beakley of the Indie Game Reading Club blog to talk about his amazing article called Prep 2.0 (https://www.indiegamereadingclub.com/indie-game-reading-club/prep-2-0/) and using Clocks in PbtA games! Timecodes: 0:01:35 - Read a Sitch 0:14:28 - Open Your Brain to Prep 2.0 0:20:06 - It's all about Clocks! The IGRC blog: https://www.indiegamereadingclub.com/ Paul's Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/igrc/posts

Rach and Rich interview David Brunell-Brutman about his game about 1990's action with Teens with Attitude. Timecodes: 0:01:46 - Read a Sitch about what it means to Play to Find Out 0:13:19 - Open Your Brain to Teens With Attitude 0:23:33 - Act Under Fire with Chris and Lance Find the Teens With Attitude Quickstart here: teenswithattitude.com David's Patreon: patreon.com/davidbrunellbrutman David's Instagram: instagram.com/david.brunellbrutman

Rach and Rich continue Movie Night, our series where we pair a movie and a PbtA RPG and talk about how you can watch the movie and improve your experience with the game. Our third pairing is Star Wars: Rogue One and Impulse Drive Timecodes: 02:02 - Spoiler-less Rogue One plot description 06:03 - Impulse Drive overview 12:38 - Rogue One Spoilery Chat!!! 17:09 - Playbook talk, where we assign playbooks (Archetypes) to significant movie characters 29:33 - Playable scenes from the movie 45:00 - Rach breaks down an NPC movie character with Impulse Drive mechanics Star Wars - Rogue One can be found on Disney+. You can purchase Impulse Drive here (aff): https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/279561/Impulse-Drive?affiliate_id=78493 A discussion on hacking Story Games to Star Wars from the Gauntlet forum: https://forums.gauntlet-rpg.com/t/playing-star-wars-in-story-game-systems/4449

Rich and Rach talk about ways to get in some PbtA gaming during social distancing measures. Timecodes: 00:13:36 - Duet Gaming with a local partner or roommate 00:20:09 - Things to consider with PbtA Games to run them as a Duet Game 00:32:25 - Gaming at home (with kids) 00:38:05 - Gaming Online with video conference rools 00:51:02 - RPG Play-by-Post (on forum or the like) 00:56:04 - RP by Chat (irc, Discord, or Slack)

Rich interviews Brandon Leon-Gambetta about his game currently on Kickstarter called Pasión de las Pasiones. Timecodes: 02:20 - Read a Sitch on using Custom Moves for Places and Situations 14:24 - Open Your Brain to Pasión 26:31 - Act Under Fire with Uno Mas! Find the Pasión de las Pasiones Kickstarter here: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/bleongambetta/pasion-de-las-pasiones

Rich interviews Robert Bohl about his game currently in playtest called Demihumans. Timecodes: 03:00 - Read a Sitch on Session Structure 09:13 - Open Your Brain to Demihumans 20:06 - Act Under Fire with Plussy the Orc! Find out more about Demihumans here: https://www.evilhat.com/home/demihumans/ If you're interested in how it's played, check out this amazing AP! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xX6IvtW_iF0&list=PLKn8FqxXQQzeGDNlvJxGDvIrBcsoMJfzP

Rach interviews April Walsh about her game currently in playtest called Thirsty Sword Lesbians. Timecodes: 0:42 - Read a Sitch on Safety Tools 12:15 - Open Your Brain to Thirsty Sword Lesbians 21:27 - Act Under Fire with a Scoundrel as she faces the United Empire Find out more about TSL here: https://www.evilhat.com/home/thirsty-sword-lesbians/