Talk of the Table

Elliot and Brian (along with special guest/host Shenuque Tissera) are joined by Bridgett Jeffries, Coordinator of Events and Outreach for Chaosium, to discuss her recent live show at Breakout Con and tips for GMing for a live audience, emotional horror, and setting yourself up for success.

Talk of the Table is hosted by Elliot Davis and Brian Flaherty. This episode also featured Shenuque Tissera.

Links:

[email protected]

Symphony Entertainment

Read The Ruins by Scott Smith

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Elliot and Brian are joined by Drakoniques, an actual play performer and producer known for their unique character designs and skill in securing sponsors for AP productions. Drak shares their tips and learnings for bringing money into the AP space through sponsorship, producing unique actual play series, and building memorable characters.

Talk of the Table is hosted by Elliot Davis and Brian Flaherty

Links:

Follow Drakoniques on Twitter

Hire Drak as a producer, performer, or game designer

Check out Drak’s work on:

Beyond the Brook

Enemy of my Enemy

Higher Education

Our Lives After

Hire Stellaluna - Award-Winning Overlay Designer

Join us in the Many Sided Media Discord for a special screening of episode 4 of Beyond the Brook 4/1 @ 8pm

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Elliot and Brian are joined by Kieron Gillen, renowned comic book author and designer of DIE RPG, to discuss building a community around your game and the future of DIE RPG (plus a preview of what to expect in the first two issues of DIE: Scenarios).

Talk of the Table is hosted by Elliot Davis and Brian Flaherty

Links:

Buy DIE (Comics)

Buy DIE RPG

Preorder DIE RPG Scenarios Vol. 1: Bizarre Love Triangles

Rare Flavours

Subscribe to Kieron’s Newsletter

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Elliot and Brian are joined by Taylor Moore, producer and sound designer of Worlds Beyond Number, to discuss the ins and outs of sound design, how much system matters in actual play, and ways we might get more sustainable and ethical money into this industry.

Talk of the Table is hosted by Elliot Davis and Brian Flaherty

Links:

Listen to Worlds Beyond Number

Triangle Agency

Startplaying.games

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In the final Talk of the Table Zine Month Special Episode, Elliot and Brian are joined once again by two designers creating brand new games. Nick Gralewicz takes us through his mech vs. kaiju mapmaking game, HOME. Then, Darling Demon Eclipse comes to the table to discuss their horror-sci-fi-romance duet game, Biotrophication.

Talk of the Table is hosted by Elliot Davis and Brian Flaherty

Nick’s Links:

Support HOME

Deep Dark Games

Support Miru 3

Eclipse’s Links:

Support Biotrophication

Eclipse on Twitch

Eclipse on Twitter

Support From Midgard to Eternity

Our Links:

FINAL DAYS to Support Rom Com Drama Bomb - Elliot’s Zine Month Project

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Elliot and Brian sit down with Lin Codega & Rowan Zeoli, 2/3 of the founding team of Rascal, a brand new worker-owned TTRPG news outlet that hopes to shake up the industry.

Talk of the Table is hosted by Elliot Davis and Brian Flaherty

Links:

rascal.news

Send press kits to [email protected]

Other Rascal emails

Lin on Twitter

Rowan on Twitter

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In the third Talk of the Table Zine Month Special episode, Elliot and Brian are joined by two designers creating brand new games. B Marsollier sits down to talk about the range of humorous, terrifying, 100% Modern Ghosts. Then, Luke Earl teaches us how to use a dowsing pendulum for his solo artifact-creation game Field Agent Handbooks: Observancy Dept. 1924–28.

Talk of the Table is hosted by Elliot Davis and Brian Flaherty

B’s Links:

Support 100% Modern Ghosts

Find B on Instagram, Tumblr, & Bluesky

Listen to B on Planet Arcana

Support Rom Com Drama Bomb

Luke’s Links:

Support Field Agent Handbooks: Observancy Dept. 1924–28

Æther Corp

Unofficial Zine Month Site

Support Luke’s Recs:

HIC:Tapestry (still funding!)

Radish Quest (still funding!)

Miru 3 (coming soon!)

Death Game (campaign over)

The Black Wren (campaign over)

Our Links:

Support Rom Com Drama Bomb - Elliot’s Zine Month Project

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In the second Talk of the Table Zine Month Special episode, Elliot and Brian are joined by Lola Johnson to discuss their system-agnostic puzzle dungeon crawl: The Tower. Then, Nico MacDougall comes to the table to talk about The Hauntings of Hyde Park, a supplement for The Between.

Talk of the Table is hosted by Elliot Davis and Brian Flaherty

Lola’s Links:

Support The Tower

Lola’s Games

Lola’s Yarn, Knitting Patterns, & Charms

Support Girlfriend of the Week

Support GUTGUN

Pre-Order Godspark

…and read/write more poetry! :) 

Nico’s Links:

Support The Hauntings of Hyde Park

Nico’s Socials, Freelance Rates, & Games

Support The Stone Flesh Gift

Buy The Between

Our Links:

Support Rom Com Drama Bomb - Elliot’s Zine Month Project

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In our first Zine Month Special episode, Elliot and Brian are joined by the designers behind two exciting new Mothership supplements headed to crowdfunding for this Zine Month: ARKYVR by Rhodrick Magsino & The Stone Flesh Gift by Jordan Boschman.

Talk of the Table is hosted by Elliot Davis and Brian Flaherty

Rhodrick’s Links:

Support ARKYVR

Alewood Games

Support I Got a Knife!

Jordan’s Links:

Support The Stone Flesh Gift

ATypicalFeaux

Buy BXLLET

Our Links:

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Elliot and Brian sit down with Cassi Mothwin to discuss lessons she learned from a jam-packed year of game design, audio/visual experimentation, and crowdfunding.

Talk of the Table is hosted by Elliot Davis and Brian Flaherty

Links:

Website - cassimothwin.com

Store - mothwin.com

Support Cassi on Patreon

Cassi’s Socials: 

Twitter

Instagram

TikTok

Listen to Planet Arcana

Buy Parsley

Buy Last Flight of the Pandora

Check out Nova, Hunt, or Rune from Gila RPGs

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