We're back to our regularly scheduled format. Mark covers Dungeon Crawl Classics, the decidedly Old Skool TTRPG. Daniel discusses Xia Legends of the Drift System. Does it fail to deliver? Or is it a modern, pick-up-and-deliver classic?

Games Discussed

• Appetizer: 
• Tariff update. Stonemeier joining a lawsuit to sue the government
• Final Frontier Games, Greater than Games, Boardlandia closed. 
• Layoffs at Flat River, Polygon.
• BDS Microsoft Xbox Boycott 
• Nintendo, Microsoft and Sony Price hikes.
• Nintendo just closed a Switch game-sharing loophole in a new update. Sharing virtual game cards is limited to family members and local wireless connection. 
• All but the most popular indie games are being deprioritized in the new eShop rankings. 
• Epic Games Store completely eliminates revenue fees for smaller developers
• Main Course: Dungeon Crawl Classics TTRPG and Xia Legends of the Drift System.
• Dessert: William Gibson Sprawl Trilogy and the Shogun novel.

Timestamps

• Start: 00:00
• Appetizer 01:31
• Game 1: 15:25
• Game 2: 33:49
• Desert: 57:46
• Outro: 1:09:52

Links

Tariff Reporting

https://boardgamewire.com/index.php/2025/04/04/board-game-industry-reels-as-trump-tariffs-threaten-job-losses-company-extinctions/

https://www.rascal.news/small-tabletop-creators-already-feeling-squeezed-by-the-tariff-era/

Polygon layoffs

https://kotaku.com/polygon-sold-vox-media-valnet-layoffs-digital-gaming-1851778655

Xbox price increases

https://www.polygon.com/news/581992/xbox-price-increase-us

BDS Microsoft boycott

https://aftermath.site/microsoft-bds-games-journalism

Virtual game card changes

https://www.tomsguide.com/gaming/handheld-gaming/nintendo-just-closed-a-switch-game-sharing-loophole-in-new-update-what-you-need-to-know

Nintendo e-shop changes

https://www.inverse.com/gaming/nintendo-switch-eshop-update-indie-games-eslop

Epic store revenue fees

https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2025/05/epic-games-store-completely-eliminates-revenue-fees-for-smaller-developers/

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https://rangedtouch.com/shelved-by-genre/

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