The Diceology Podcast

My guest today is a gamer I admire for his style of DMing and asking players questions. He has the uncanny ability for generating gameable premises. He is the author of the Dictionary of Mu, a favorite sword and sorcery setting of mine. He's the host of the Daydreaming About Dragons podcast and my current Friday morning GM for Trophy Gold. Judd Karlman 

Blog: githyankidiaspora.com

Podcast: https://anchor.fm/daydreaming-about-dragons 

Twitch.tv/ActualPlay

Trophy Gold 

Worlds of Dungeons 

Dungeons & Dragons 

Hutt Cartel | Cartel RPG 

Canva 

Stars without Number RPG 

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I've recorded this conversation with Geoff and Neil from my Twilight: 2000 Saturday morning game. This group, this time slot, and the game are a magical thing for me right now, and I suspect for the four players as well. I wanted to get their thoughts and feels 10 sessions in about the game, the group, and whatever else comes up. 

Content warning. Twilight: 2000 is a survival sandbox game set in war-torn Poland in the 2000s. There are parallels with the current invasion of Ukraine and we talk about the early stage of the war in Ukraine. 

We're using Free League's setup for Foundry VTT and it's been incredibly useful. ICYMI check out my post The Promise of VTTs.

BIG shout out to The Gauntlet and their Open Gaming program. This game grew out of a one-shot I ran for an Open Gaming weekend hosted by the Gauntlet.  

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Started Mothership with Judd. I'm playing a character inspired by Fox Mulder.  The pitch: Two scientists investigate the disappearance of their professor and the crew of a science vessel. 

Twilight: 2000:  The discovery of a dead soldier stashed in the woods and a convoy heading toward Barnes's occupied Polish town,  sends Bard and Justin off to extract Tracy and Janush. They decide to confront the polish spook, Phil before sneaking out of the encampment and back to their base in the woods.

Legacy 2E: Gale and  Manta-ray kill each other in the Endless city over control of the "Hand"  artifact. Gale's death move sends both players to an eternal hellscape. The artifact is lost to the Endless City. And the Third age begins.

Wrath & Glory: Exotic weapons have been turning up in skirmishes on Gideon Prime. Tasked with investigating the origins of these weapons our favorite Tech-Priest follows a trail that leads him to the Spacehulk - Veritagous.

Playing Elden Ring - dying, wonder, exploring, dying.

Prepping Barbarians of Lemuria: Treachery at Axos Mountains. We have a fully leaned-in sorcerer, a sky-ship pilot, and an amnesiac mercenary being pursued into the Axos Mountains where they hope to find a haven of outcasts to go to ground at.

 Improv for Gamers 2e will be on Gamefound by Evil Hat. I've got a piece in there as well as a cornucopia of amazing folks, check it out.

And GauntletCon Open Gaming end of March. C'mon out and play!!

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Rich Rogers, co-host of Plus One Forward and designer of Hit the Streets: Defend the Block, an ENnie award-winning street-level supers RPG joins me to talk about his gaming week - it's like a mini-con!!

Rich's Stone Top duet game with his wife,  Vampire 5e, Bounty of the Week (Monster of the Week hack), Gravity Rip, Star Wars Blades in the Dark, Rascals, X-Crawl.

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Running:

Whitehack + Dungeons and Dilemmas 

Twilight: 2000: Base building and sweet, sweet sandbox magic.

Legacy 2E: Life Among the Ruins. Four families and bad virtual dice rolling!

Wrath & Glory 1v1. Tech-Priest visiting a Space Hulk.

Playing

An ex-Stormtrooper in Bounty of the Week on twitch.tv/actualplay, Rich Rogers is running it.

A Buzzard-headed god of death in Godbound Northern Death Pantheon.

And thinking about Dragons.. 😉

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The 2021 Mad Jay Picks!

Some year-end metrics and my personal game picks for:

•  Most Surprised Experience. 
• The Old Man Logan Award.
• The  Lethal Sessions Award
• Most evocative setting
• Closest to my heart.

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 The One Ring on Twitch is a wrap at 11 sessions! We've traveled from Rivendell to the Cold Fells to Bree and finale in the South Barrow-downs tracking down the fell sorcerer Gorlanc! Rich Rogers of +1 Forward takes the reigns and will run Bounty of the Week in the new year!

Twilight: 2000 - Straight Outta Kalisz the Saturday sessions, we're two sessions into a gas station firefight! Combat is STRESSful! 

Whitehack RPG has been fun on Tuesday nights, I'm digging the fiction that gets generated as players use the groups and vocations they've picked.  

I ran Mothership Rpg - Desert Moon of Karth for Star Wars Con Special Edition for the Gauntlet. Fixed Ewok cage match. Say No more!!

Headed to PAX later this week.

TWIL: There's a Cortex community license?! I'll take a swing at that! You can check out my madness at Playefearless on substack.

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On the table

3 sessions in for Vena and the King of Nothing! We had a solid ordinary but strong third session of Burning Wheel. We talk about the three sessions and the game so far, the good, the bad, and what's next. Spoilers: Elle is still game!

I did a panel called Fresh Starts for Big Bad Con with Lowel Francis from the Gauntlet and Rich Rogers of +1 Forward fame.  We talked about starting new games with new groups.

I re-started a Twilight: 2000 limited series, a reboot of a one-shot I ran for GauntletCon Open Gaming --two events ago!

Starting up some Delta Green with Brendan. He is playing an online blogger media journalist that investigates weird true crimes. How have I not looked at this game before?!

I've finished Superman and the Authority #4. I don't want it to end! 

Played a Debtpunk hack of Apocalypse World, looking to see where the fun, interesting stuff is. And thus was born the IX playbook!

Prepping

• Whitehack for a group formed on the IGRC.
• Back into Pirates of Drinax and the One Ring this week.
• Forbidden Lands for the Patreon monthly hustle game.

What are you playing?

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Mad Elle and I continue our Burning Wheel series. Vena the Elf ranger is on the run with the young Elven prince she was tasked to kill for the Queen-Regent. In this episode, she has to make some choices about the humans living in the millhouse she once stayed in with the ghost king. An Elven patrol finds her and her crew at the mill house. And Elle makes an
amazing stake setting choice!

You can check out our session zero and see how we got here!

Vena, Ranger of the Wilderland.

Born Etharch, Attendant, Second, Ranger

Relationships:

• Seeker, prince-in-exile
• Ghost of the murdered Elf King (Forbidden, Romantic)
• Queen-Regent (Family, Hateful)
• Uncle-King (Forbidden)

Beliefs:

• I must protect the prince, we need to find shelter before winter sets in.
• I will avenge the king by bringing his murderers to justice.
• I will reach out to the Tengu people to make friends.

Instincts

• Always see the best in people.

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