Across the Table

What’s Hot in Indie RPGs 2018? – Dragonmeet 2018 seminar (47 mins) Download

Ric moderated this seminar at Dragonmeet on 1st December 2018. The panel was Rob, Eunice Hung, James Mullen and Lloyd Gyan. (Read the hand-outs, including popular con games, biggest kickstarters and themes in the year and a list of games released in 2018)

Please note: this was recorded at a busy convention and so there is considerable background noise and microphone pops and clunks. Please be cautious if listening using earphones.

0107 Rob Carnel on The Clay That Woke (2014) and Minotaur World

1700 Rob Carnel on better Powered by the Apocalypse Games and second editions of indie rpgs

3200 Q&A: Please destroy unnecessary crowdfunding stretch-goals

4550 What games are you looking forward to?

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What’s Hot in Story Games 2017? – Dragonmeet 2017 seminar (45 mins) Download

Ric moderated this seminar at Dragonmeet on 2nd December 2017. The panel was Rob, Becky Annison, Elizabeth Lovegrove and Lloyd Gyan. (Read the hand-outs, including popular con games, biggest kickstarters and top patreons and a list of games released in 2017)

0100 Rob Carnel on Fair Verona Burns: A Tragedy In Three Acts (2017)

1622 Rob Carnel on blurring the lines between mainstream & indie design and whether some rule systems liberate or constrain their hacks

3218 Q&A: Games with mechanically supported courtly intrigue?

4200 What games are you looking forward to?

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Rob Carnel is a game critic, zine editor and one of the most prolific game-runners at London Indiemeet.

Becky Annison is the award-winning designer of the critically acclaimed games Lovecraftesque and When the Dark is Gone, and is one half of the small press publisher Black Armada games. Becky has been in love with gaming for 26 years and likes to write, run and play games that give you intense feels. She also speaks and writes about RPG design and inclusivity and diversity. When not gaming, Becky likes knitting and detective stories. Becky is relentlessly cheerful, ridiculously creative and so modest she had to get someone else to write this.

Elizabeth Lovegrove is the designer of Rise and Fall, a story game about dystopias, and part of Indie Game of the Year the Seven Wonders anthology. She’s a regular on the Fictoplasm podcast, about turning books into games, and an academic who’s trying to sneak roleplaying into her teaching.

Lloyd Gyan is a lover of indie and story games and also a GMing phenomenon.

Best RPGs for Beginners (Part 2) (31 mins) Download

0000 GxB (2011) by Jake Richmond

To read replays (transcripts) of a session of the above games which Ric organised see:

From Concrete Cow: Neil on Inspectres (2004); Elina on Witch: the Road to Lindisfarne; Lloyd Gyan on Fate Accelerated (2013); Nick Reynolds on playing with those you like and trust

Best RPGs for Beginners (Part 1) (61 mins) Download

0000 What were our criteria?

1650 From Concrete Cow: Lloyd Gyan on Dungeons & Dragons 5e (2014); Matt Nixon on Dungeons & Dragons 5e (2014); Amy on Firefly (2014); Mike Mason on Call of Cthulhu (1981-2014); Ian on Cthulhu Dark (2010-17)

1919 Always/Never/Now (2013) by Will Hindmarch

3400 From Concrete Cow: Lloyd Gyan on Dungeon World (2012); Paul Fricker on Dungeon World (2012); Ralph on Beyond the Wall (2013); Andrew Burbage on Traveller (1977-2016); Matt Nixon on BRP (1980-2008)

3639 Love in the Time of Seið (2010) by Mattijs Holter & Jason Morningstar

4812 From Concrete Cow: Lloyd Gyan on Mutant Year Zero (2014); James Mullen on Fiasco (2009); James Torrance on Microscope (2011); Scott Dorward on Primetime Adventures (2004-15); Piers Connelly on Intrepid (2013)

5053 Psi*Run (2007) by Meguey Baker

5725 From Concrete Cow: Lloyd Gyan on Masks: A New Generation (2016); Steve Ellis on Monsterhearts (2012); Abstract Machine on Left Coast (2011-13); Cat on Best Friends (2007); Michael on Cheat Your Own Adventure (2012)

Ric & Rob at the 200 word rpg playfest (30 mins) Download

0031 Shuffles & Skeletons by Carlos Martins

UK Games Expo seminar: Acquiring IP licenses and designing genre in rpgs (48 mins) Download

0000 Introductions

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