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I'm pretty excited about this new episode, I'm looking forward to hearing what you think of it. I've had plans to begin recording a tabletop roleplaying game while musing about brand strategy and a few other topics, and it's finally beginning! In this episode, I'm creating the setting and playing character for Ironsworn, a roleplaying game that friends told me about and is designed to be played in a solo format (though not only, you can also play the same game with friends).

In this game of perilous quests, characters take vows they swear on a bit of iron leading them to adventures to fulfill on them.

I will record the sequel soon, but otherwise if you'd like to join me in playing a game and chatting about strategy and communications some time, please keep in touch!

In this episode I go through the creative process of the beginning of a roleplaying game, while also mentioning brand personalities a little and a few other bits, like Stephen Kings' seminal 1971 paper "What is a Brand?" and Ogilvy on Advertising.

A few other things mentioned in the episode:

Ironsworn RPG

Shawn Tomkin on Twitter

Quill RPG

Scott Malthouse

Stephen King - "What is a Brand?" and the video version

A Masterclass in Brand Planning

Ogilvy on Advertising

Mad Men

Avis "We Try Harder" advertising campaign / underdog story

Miro.com

A month has gone by in a flash since the last episode I published, and the world has massively changed since - at least much of the world has, as the COVID-19 virus has been declared a global pandemic. In France we have been confined to our homes for the past two weeks, asked to stay home aside for work essential to running the country, going out for groceries, and minimal physical exercise. If you're reading I'm sure you know all this.

Much of my world and media diet has been coronavirus related for more than two weeks now, and while there are experts talking about that side of things with more knowledge than I have, I wanted to record and share some of my thoughts of how it has been for me in the past couple of weeks, and hoping it is useful and resonates with some of your experience as well.

It's also a way to say I am still working on my podcast, and the next episode will be back to some "normal programming" even though as I mention, I'm still exploring what normal is for my podcast.

I think I forgot one important point in this recording, in case you read this, and that is the importance of taking care of your mind and emotions in this time of crisis. I'm even more diligent than usual about my daily meditation, and on that topic I recommend a great and short episode of Sam Harris' podcast: Meditation in an Emergency.

That's about it for now, I'll be back with more soon, stay home stay safe in the meantime!

We are back to a more traditional episode of the podcast this month, it follows the episode I recently published playing Quill, a letter-writing roleplaying game for a single player - you can go back to that one first if you'd like though it's not essential to following this conversation.

After publishing the episode playing Quill, I reached out to Scott Malthouse, the author of the game, and he graciously accepted to take some time for a recording, a mere few weeks later and voilà!

I hope you enjoy listening as much as I did chatting with Scott about his games, if you did please take a few minutes to post a review on your favorite podcasting app, it helps me keep motivated to record and publish, and helps others find the podcast thanks to the recommendations.

In this episode:

Scott Malthouse on Twitter

Trollish Delver Games

We Love Folklore

Quill RPG (and more Quill in other languages too)

Fighting Fantasy / Choose Your Own Adventure Books

Warhammer / Warhammer 40,000

Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay

D&D

Fiasco RPG

OSR Retro clones

Osric

Swords & Wizardry

Tunnels & Trolls

Dungeon World

Powered by the Apocalypse

Rulings not Rules

Apocalypse World

USR - Unbelievably Simple Roleplaying

Osprey Games

Romance of the Perilous Land

Frostgrave

Nookers

Boggarts

De Profundis

Story Cubes / 9 dice

Dixit

Mysterium

Obscurio

Tarot Deck

Once Upon a Time

Dragonmeet

Pathfinder

Alphonse Mucha

I am experimenting new types of episodes for the podcast and would love to hear what you think of this one, given it's a first time for me.

Before Christmas, I went out one day with my Zoom H5 audio recorder and recorded my observations visiting the Louvre Museum in Paris for the first time.

Join me for a quite ignorant but hopefully entertaining audio experience from the most visited museum in the world!

Mentioned in this episode:

The Louvre Museum

Nintendo & The Louvre partnership for 3DS audioguides

Musée d'Orsay

Zoom H5 Audio Recorder

Man, Play, and Games, by Roger Caillois

Red Carnations on a Black Grave, tabletop roleplaying game

The Assumption of the Virgin, painting by Giambattista Piazetta

Ancient Rome and Modern Rome, paintings by Giovanni Paolo Panini

Landscape with the Flight into Egypt, painting by Dominichino

Mona Lisa, Leonardo da Vinci

Le Sacre ou le Couronnement (Napoleon at Notre Dame)

Leonidas at Thermopylae, David

Liberty Guiding The People (Delacroix)

...And many more.

Happy new year, I hope you had an amazing time over the holidays!!

I can't believe it's 2020 already. Now I really feel old, still thinking of "the Twenties" as the 1920s now nearly twenty years into the 21st century. I'm sure people thought and said that a hundred years ago too.

Check out Tim Urban's short post on Wait But Why about 2020 for some more of this kind of perspective in the kind of fantastic diagram he does so well - and just a little bit depressing too.

I'm finally back with an experimental episode, it's about time! I've settled in Paris and still aiming to record playing games and having generally playful experiences with others, though in the meantime I'm beginning the experiment by myself. I'm definitely interested in hearing what you think of this one, given it's pretty different from previous episodes.

Mentioned in this episode:

Wait But Why: It's 2020 and you're in the future

Mark Pollard's Sweathead podcast

Les Voix d'Altaride, podcast rôliste (en français)

Samuel Ziterman (en français, GM Tips, solo TTRPGs)

Cendrones (en français, IronSworn solo TTRPG episode 1)

Quill, A Letter-writing Roleplaying Game for a Single Player, on Itch.io (and Drivethru RPG) by Scott Malthouse of Trollish Delver Games.

Well for a change I'm kind of behind on all sorts of things (mainly the podcast, newsletter, and other similar side projects and ideas - like designing a board game, that hasn't gotten any love in a while. But I digress) I was about to fly from Chicago to Paris yesterday on the 4th July and after nearly 4 hours delay, the flight was cancelled.

It just so happens that I'm in the middle of moving from Chicago to Paris, so they put me up in a hotel near the airport, rebooked on a flight a day later, and I've been doing my best to catch up on everything, including dealing with a few fires and emergencies to do with organizing my 40th birthday party in Spain in a couple of weeks - which I'm super excited about!

That's about it for now, I have more news in the episode, including a week long intensive improv comedy course I took, a workshop about stand-up comedy, performed for our improv comedy student show, did a quick set at a stand-up open mic, lots going on with organizing my big vacation and party to celebrate my 40th birthday - in the villa pictured above, and lots done in Chicago to enjoy all the things I love about the city!

That's about it for now, keep in touch and as usual please tell me if you enjoy listening to the podcast!

I first met Jason at GenCon in 2018, and have been meaning to have a conversation about his game designing since. We had a brilliant chat about coffee roasting, roleplaying game writing and design, some of his history, what he believes his game design is about, and some pointers for people interested in trying out tabletop roleplaying games.

"I'm trying to make memorable, emotionally moving games that make people think about serious issues so that we can use games to teach people how to be better humans through the incredible empathy building that is available in the roleplaying game hobby."

- Jason Pitre

Info mentioned in this episode:

Genesis of Legend

Follow Genesis of Legend on Twitter

AeroPress

French Press

Chemex coffee maker

Ottawa

Accadians

Victoria, British Columbia

Les Voix d'Altaride Podcast (French)

Magic: The Gathering

RuneQuest RPG

Rifts RPG

Bushido RPG

Dungeons & Dragons RPG

TSR (company)

Demon: The Fallen RPG

White Wolf Publishing

Spark RPG

Wizards of the Coast 

Harlem Unbound RPG

Cthtulhu Mythos

H.P. Lovecraft

Chaosium

Sig: Manual of the Primes RPG

Planescape

RPG Design Panelcast

Spire RPG

Good Society RPG

The Jank Cast

D&D Adventurer's League

Microscope RPG

Kingdom RPG

Follow RPG

Seven Wonders: A Story Games Anthology

Dragonmeet Convention in London

A Theory of Fun for Game Design, by Raph Koster

Metatopia Game design convention

Jeni's Ice Cream

Origins Game Fair

Gauntlet: Red Carnation on a Black Grave

One Child's Heart (recently on KS)

Quarter Share, by Nathan Lowell