Brain Trust

Brain Trust

By Adam Vass & Will JobstLeisureGames
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Brain Trust episodes

  • Competitive TTRPGs and Bingo

    Season 1, Episode 11: In this episode, we tackle a question from Ethan Yen about creating competitive TTRPGs. 

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    44 min
  • Q&A: Monsters, Art, and Quiet Innovation

    Season 1, Episode 10: In this episode, we answer listener questions, specifically about monster design, art, and “quiet innovation”. 

    Appendix N: 

    https://www.gamedeveloper.com/design/rock-paper-scissors---a-method-for-competitive-game-play-design

    Made Out Of Meat: Health Systems In Video Games

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    47 min
  • Approachability and Free Radicals


    Season 1, Episode 9: In this episode, we talk about how we communicate what our games even are, and how we can meld minds with people who run games via the page. 

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    Find us at https://braintrust.rocks/.


    45 min
  • Gen Con Recap and Cryptids

    Season 1, Episode 8: We were both… ACTUALLY… at Gen Con. Here’s our report! 

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    46 min
  • Kickstarter and Disgusting Butterflies

    Season 1, Episode 7: In this episode we join our hosts mere minutes after the end of a successful Kickstarter. 

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    38 min
  • Plasmodics and the Human Inside the Game

    Season 1, Episode 6: In this episode, we talk everything Plasmodics, a big update on our lives and project, and how we highlight the usness of our games.


    Find Plasmodics: mutant freaks in the weird future here.

    Visit https://ko-fi.com/thebraintrust and throw us a few bucks a month to hear seasonal bonus episodes, get access to merch sales, and more! 

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    56 min
  • Graphic Design and Born to Die

    Season 1, Episode 5: In this episode, we talk about shock jocks, graphic design, and studying adventures, and in the middle we design the Born to Die TTRPG! Listen to part two of this episode only on Ko-Fi, on 2/6. 

    Find the Born to Die RPG at https://worldchampgameco.itch.io/.

    Visit https://ko-fi.com/thebraintrust and throw us a few bucks a month to hear seasonal bonus episodes, get access to merch sales, and more! 

    Find us at https://braintrust.rocks/.

    Appendix N: 

    ⁠Born to Die⁠

    Ali on TikTok

    Sinix Design

    Elliotisacoolguy

    Shannon Swales

    Struthless

    Electric Bastionland

    I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream

    Lancer

    Kill Five Billion Demons

    Ten Million HP Planet

    Hardspace Shipbreaker

    Good Friends of Jackson Elias



    58 min
  • Save Points and Research

    Season 1, Episode 4: In this episode, we chat about IKEA, save points in TTRPGs, and how we research games, and who our “game parents” are. 

    Visit https://ko-fi.com/thebraintrust and throw us a few bucks a month to hear seasonal bonus episodes, get access to merch sales, and more! 

    Find us at https://braintrust.rocks/.

    Appendix N:


    Baldur’s Gate 3

    big Grave Fashion Fantasy

    Vampire the Masquerade

    One Thousand Year Old Vampire

    Blood Borg

    A Guide to Casting Phantoms in the Revolution

    Black Mass

    Mork Borg

    Vaults of Vaarn



    1 hr 3 min
  • Companions and Mr. Lindor

    Season 1, Episode 3: In this episode, we talk about companions and how we love to use them. 

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    Appendix N:

    Baldur’s Gate 3

    Follow 

    Imp of the Preverse

    Plasmodics: mutant freaks in the weird future

    Wastelanders

    Cybermetal 2012

    Big Grave Fashion Fantasy 

    Cyberpunk 2077

    Good Friends of Jackson Elias

    Eternal Lies

    Dracula Dossier

    Night’s Black Agents

    Mothership



    58 min
  • BONUS UNLOCKED: Dungeon Lords

    Season 1, Episode 2b Bonus: In this episode, we enter the Therapy-G zone to talk about how to run dungeons while playing digitally!

    Visit https://ko-fi.com/thebraintrust and throw us a few bucks a month to hear seasonal bonus episodes, get access to merch sales, and more! 

    Find us at https://braintrust.rocks/.

    Appendix N:

    Western Kabuki

    Wolves Upon the Coast

    Dungeons and Dragons (disrespectful)

    Dungeon Robber

    32 min

About Brain Trust

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Indie tabletop RPG designers Adam Vass and Will Jobst make roleplaying games, chat theory, and be friends online.