Jonathan Barron joins me to discuss the difficulties of converting the monster-catching genre of video games and TV into a tabletop experience. His game MajiMonsters relies on an original system that tracks a player character as well as multiple unique monsters, all complete with their own skills and abilities to confront this dangerous, fantastic world.

42. How To Catch Them All with Jonathan Barron's MajiMonsters

Modifier sits down with designers of all stripes and looks at what it takes to make a great game! With a focus on homebrewing and otherwise modifying existing games to meet your storytelling needs, these interviews dig deep into how changing the rules enables better storytelling. Hosted by Meghan Dornbrock.

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Jason Pitre is back with more Sig, this time a Forged in the Dark reimagining titled Sig: City of Blades. Here us chat about this new take on Sig, life in the Hellyear 2020, and the online incarnation of Metatopia!

83. Sig: City of Blades

Brinkwood: The Blood of Tyrants is a Forged in the Dark game about Robin Hood vs Vampires, created by Erik Bernhardt. Come join us as we talk about eating money, making deals with the fae, and fighting for justice.

82. Brinkwood (It's a Metaphor)

Princess World, be Kevin Petker, is a PbtA game about cooperative world building, storytelling, problem solving, and being girls who rule. We chat about how the game evolved out of a request from his daughter into this clever, colorful, collaborative adventure.

81. Princess World with Kevin Petker

Rich Howard, Richard Kreutz-Landry, and Taylor LaBresh are the design trio behind Descent into Midnight. This aquatic PbtA game about community and emotion defies genre, so we make a bunch of ocean puns and get really heartfelt about stuff.

80. Descent into Midnight

Return guest Tracy Barnett is here in friend capacity this week for a heart-to-heart with Meghan about burnout, asking for help, and where they are right now in that journey.

42. How To Catch Them All with Jonathan Barron's MajiMonsters

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