Critical Twits Podcast

Chainsaw - MÖRK BORG meets Slasher Movies! Games Designer Interview with Matthew Myslinski   We want to play a game! That game is Chainsaw, a slasher horror tabletop roleplaying game from the Driftwood Archives currently being crowdfunded on Kickstarter.

Powered by MÖRK BORG, the Chainsaw RPG allows you to step into the quaking boots of the victims in horror films such as Nightmare on Elm Street, Scream, Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Halloween, and Friday the 13th. We sat down with games designer Matthew Myslinski to discuss horror franchises, using genre tropes in your TTRPGs, getting your gaming table to try new games, heavy metal, and the wonderful MÖRK BORG Community.

Kickstarter - https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/driftwoodarchives/chainsaw

Driftwoodarchives.com 

Chainsawrpg.com 

Thank you to Sacha from Slightly Reckless Games – check out their Mork Borg engine games here – https://www.slightlyrecklessgames.com/

Find this episode in video form here: https://youtu.be/UVTc7gLWCcY

Find this episode in podcast form here: https://www.spreaker.com/episode/chainsaw-rpg-interview-pod-final--62205415

Listen to our Actual Play podcast, Roll In The Dark, here - https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/roll-in-the-dark-an-actual-play-podcast--6167997

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Howdy, pardners! Tales of the Old West is an upcoming tabletop RPG from Effekt Publishing, and we were lucky enough to grab an interview with designers Dave Semark and Matthew Tyler-Jones of Effekt Publishing. Conversation on the game itself begins in earnest at (24:40)

The buffalo of conversation roams across topics such as the Mutant Year Zero Free Tabletop Licence (FTL), working for Free League, getting started as a writer for TTRPGS, their Effekt and Effekt AP podcasts, writing the wonderful Hope’s Last Day scenario for Alien: The Roleplaying Game, and winning a Gold ENNIE award for the Alien RPG sourcebook Building Better Worlds.

Dave and Matthew have come a long way from their days selling ‘zines for 80s Games Workshop RPGs and have successfully funded Tales of the Old West on Kickstarter.

If you want to see us in action playing the game, head over to Spreaker or YouTube
Click to join the Kickstarter - Kickstarter
Free quickplay rules! Tales of the Old West Quick Draw 
More from Effekt - Effekt Publishing  - The Effekt Podcast  - The Effect AP Podcast
Find this episode in video form HERE  
Consider listening to our Actual Play podcast, Roll In The Dark, HERE
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We chat with Sacha Lightfoot from Slightly Reckless Games about their Norse-themed Mörk Borg-engine Kickstarter Berserkr, running an indie tabletop RPG press, last year's big crowd-funding hit Ronin, the importance of music in roleplaying games, TTRPG design, games art, Norse myths, Japanese culture, Cyberpunk 2020... and snowplough duellist Jeremy Renner.

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This pod on YouTube - https://youtu.be/Yle0zLA3OLg

Show notes:
https://www.slightlyrecklessgames.com
Berserkr Kickstarter page - https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/slightlyreckless/berserkr 
Our interview with the creators of Mörk Borg - https://youtu.be/grv5-5EPZUk
Slightly Reckless Games' Discord - https://discord.com/invite/FfqBuqXvMK

We interview RPG author Chris Longhurst, aka Potatocubed, about his upcoming RPG "Threadcutters", his previous work (Bleak Spirit, Pigsmoke, Attorneys at Jaw, and Strike Force Omega), and his experiences with game design and publishing as a indie writer/developer.

The interview took place on 24/06/2024.

You can find Potatocubed's games here: https://potatocubed.itch.io/
And you can find out more about what we're up to, including actual-play RPGs at https://www.criticaltwits.com
And here's a list of where to find all the other games we talked about:
Exalted - Sidereals: https://www.storytellersvault.com/product/50485/Manual-of-Exalted-Power-Sidereals
Lovecraftesque: https://blackarmada.com/lovecraftesque/
Fucked Up Little Man: https://rowanrookanddecard.com/product/fucked-up-little-man/
Detect or Die: https://silk-stone.itch.io/detect-or-die
Songs for the Dusk: https://yrgirlkv.itch.io/songsforthedusk
Heat - Pedal to the Metal: https://www.daysofwonder.com/heat/
The Fashion Game: https://ryokoyabuchi.stores.jp/items/64644d65c2d1e4002ebf6657

Join us we talk all about the TTRPGS, boardgames, art, and miscellaneous arts and crafts that we explored at the UK Games Expo 2024 in Birmingham!

Thanks to everyone we mentioned in this episode, and all the games and RPGs we loved - in no particular order:

Slightly Restless Games' RPG Ronin; Stockholm Kartell and Mork Borg, Pelle Nilsson, Johan Nohr, Chris Bisette, Rowan, Rook and Decard; Grant Howitt; Mike Mason at Chaosium; Fighting Fantasy and Jonathan Green; Ian Livingstone; Kevin Rahman and Forbidden Psalm; Thornless Rose; Happy Yeti Games; Soulmuppet Publishing; Monte Cook Games; Game Toppers; Hollows; Spire; Old Gods of Appalachia; Boop; Weird Games; No Thank You Evil; Be Like a Crow; This Wretched House; Inssmouth The Stolen Child; They Live; Calico; Hieronymous; Paint the Town Red, and Shenanigrams.

Our Actual Play podcast, Roll In The Dark

We play Goblin Quest - Spreaker or YouTube 
Eat The Reich Unboxing
Forbidden Psalm Unboxing

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In this episode, we interview the award winning RPG author Sarah Newton about her new RPG "The Chronicles of Future Earth". 

"The Chronicles of Future Earth" is powered by FATE. It is written and designed by Sarah Newton and published by Typhon Games (Formally Mindjammer Press Ltd)

You can find out more about "The Chronicles of Future Earth" and purchase a copy from here: https://www.typhon-games.com/the-chronicles-of-future-earth/

To see a video version of this interview, you can find our YouTube and other channels, including our new actual play RPG podcast Roll In The Dark, at criticaltwits.com

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Lying - a terrible, hurtful, nasty thing to do, or a great way to have fun with your friends? Brian and Aaron take you through their favourite lying, bluffing, social deduction games. Want to help support our content? https://www.criticaltwits.com https://www.twitter.com/Critical_Twits https://www.facebook.com/criticaltwits https://www.instagram.com/criticaltwits/

In this week's podcast The Twits look at co-operative board games. What are they? What makes them great? And what are some of the best examples we know of? Want to help support our content? Now you can make a donation here: https://bit.ly/donatetwits https://www.criticaltwits.com https://www.twitter.com/Critical_Twits https://www.facebook.com/criticaltwits https://www.instagram.com/criticaltwits/

In this podcast we pick apart the recent news that our favourite miniatures game, Malifaux, is getting a 3rd edition. Want to help support our content? Now you can make a donation here: https://bit.ly/donatetwits https://www.criticaltwits.com https://www.twitter.com/Critical_Twits https://www.facebook.com/criticaltwits https://www.instagram.com/criticaltwits/