Today we discuss bevy of Roll & Writes with Jay Cormier founder of Off The Page Games and designer of games like Akrotiri, In the Hall of the Mountain King, Junk Art and many more! Roll/Flip & Write as a genre are (usually) small and portable games that involve players interacting with some sort of randomizer (e.g. cards, dice, ect.) and marking the results on sheets of paper or erasable boards. Another common factor is that marking choices made in previous plays limit a player's marking choices in future plays. In the episode we talk about all things surrounding Roll & Writes, but we focus specifically on That’s So Clever, Patchwork Doodle, Cartographers, Welcome To and Rajas of the Ganges:  The Dice Charmers. We cap the episode off by breaking down the history of the genre and what innovations influenced its modern day implementation.

Learn more about Jay Cormier and Off the Page Games here.

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Learn more about the games here: That’s So Clever, Patchwork Doodle, Cartographers, Welcome To, and Rajas of the Ganges: The Dice Charmers.

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-Time Stamps-

8:26 - What is a Roll/Flip & Write? 
12:11 - Overviews 
25:36 - That’s So Clever 
28:04 - Jay’s First Impressions 
28:53 - Jesse’s First Impressions 
30:09 - Jan’s First Impressions 
33:50 - Patchwork Doodle 
34:09 - Jay’s First Impressions 
35:33 - Jesse’s First Impressions 
38:25 - Jan’s First Impressions 
39:52 - Cartographers 
40:52 - Jesse’s Thoughts 
41:12 - Can Cartographers be an introductory game into the hobby? 
42:51 - Jay’s First Impressions 
45:33 - Jan’s First Impressions 
47:31 - Welcome To 
47:50 - Jay’s First Impressions 
50:39 - Jesse’s First Impressions 
52:29 - Rajas of the Ganges: The Dice Charmers 
55:05 - Jay’s Thoughts Around Design in the Dice Charmers 
59:16 - Jesse’s First Impressions 
1:00:06 - Jay’s First Impressions 
1:00:38 - Jan’s First Impressions 
1:01:51 - Should Roll/Flip & Write based around existing games be reinterpretations or completely new titles? 
1:05:38 - Is there space for heavy (weight complexity) Roll/Flip & Write? 
1:12:17 - Brief History of Roll/Flip & Writes 
1:20:16 - Off the Page Games 

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