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DMs Rob and Matt are ready to get groovy under the electroplasmic sun of Blades '68. This time they're joined on their heist by DM Sean Foer, our favorite Forged in the Dark Game Masters. Turn on the show for our discussion of new playbooks, mechanics, and crews in Blades '68. Tune in for some mid-century Game Mastering tips. And drop out as we discuss Sean's awesome new booklet on RPG cultures.

Archipelago of Play by Sean Foer

Check out more of Sean's stuff here: https://www.seanfoer.com/

Blades '68 by Tim Denee: https://evilhat.com/product/blades-68/

The Blades '68 Trouble Engine:

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Matt and Rob come to you in the form of grainy footage on a VHS and scratchy audio on a battered cassette to talk to you about Public Access, a very cool analog horror game built on the Carved from Brindlewood system! We talk about nostalgia, horror, analog media, memory, and more!

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It's time to move on over to a Story Game system. Or is it a "modern" game? Or a "fiction-first" game? Who knows! Special Guest Mason Allen, is here to help DMs Rob and Matt navigate the wide and wonderful (apocalypse) worlds of Story Games, and how to pick the right system for your next campaign!

Plus, check out Mason's own Story Game (it's Succession with Archmages at the End of the World) now funding on Game Found:

https://gamefound.com/en/projects/riftkid-games/ivory-tower

You can get the original edition (which reviewed back in episode 366) here: https://riftkid-games.itch.io/ivory-tower

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Matt and Rob talk about how to give your players hard choices. Let's make 'em sweat folks!

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Listen to THE ORACLE, a little side project from DM Rob. Down on his luck retro gaming YouTuber Jeff discovers a strange video game that leads him down a path of mystery and unsettling revelations.

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Howdy Ophoi-heads, game designer Federico Sohns joins DMs Rob and Matt to chat about social science as game and world-building inspiration and the two brilliant TTRPGs they have designed: Zephyr and Nibiru!

Zephyr: An Anarchist Game of Fleeting Identities

Nibiru Revisited: A Science Fiction Game of Lost Memories

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Matt and Rob talk about the greatest city of Khorvaire, Eberron's Sharn, and the very good 2004 campaign setting book that covers it. Grab your trenchcoats, fedoras, wands and featherfall tokens, because we're headed into the city of a thousand towers folks!

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Crows: Fortune or Death is the newest TTRPG system from MCDM productions! DMs Rob and Matt are joined by designer and game director James Introcaso to discuss what makes Crows different from other fantasy adventures. Strap on your pack, pass some equipment cards around, and get ready to head out beyond the light of the beacon and into a dungeon.

Crows: Fortune or Death on Backerkit

MCDM's Crows

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Matt and Rob discuss the news, and there's a lot of it! Dark Sun returns, World of Warcraft and Star Wars will be 5e-ified, there's a new King of Kickstarter, and more! https://www.ttrpginsider.news/p/fighting-oppression-in-new-ways-d-d-s-designers-on-adapting-dark-sun-to-modern-times

https://www.enworld.org/threads/dungeons-dragons-icons-line-announced-bringing-back-classic-creators-to-classic-settings.720054/

https://www.enworld.org/threads/million-dollar-ttrpg-kickstarter-club.678540/

https://magnoliakeep.blogspot.com/2026/07/the-thoughtlessness-of-deathbringers_02053113930.html

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Out—out are the lights—out all!

And, over each quivering form,

The curtain, a funeral pall,

Comes down with the rush of a storm,

While the angels, all pallid and wan,

Uprising, unveiling, affirm

That the play is the tragedy, "Man,"

And its hero, the Conqueror Worm.

DMs Rob and Matt are back for another classic Actual Prep, in which your hosts prep their next game "live" for your listening enjoyment. This time, it's a Mothership adventure!

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